Gorgonian on the precipitous North Wall of Grand Cayman Island, Caribbean, 1974.
From “The underwater wilderness: life around the great reefs” by Carl Roessler, 1977.
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Prankish tides lifted this vessel into a strange drydock, 1950. Photo from the London Electrotype Agency.
“After anchoring safely in Amoy at night during an extremely high tide, the crew found themselves next morning perched precariously on this rock, 20 feet above the receding waters. They are sitting beside their stranded junk, patiently awaiting the next high tide to float again.”
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Helen Mirren, Great Barrier Reef, 1969.
From the film “Age of Consent” by Michael Powell.
Folco Quilici, An encounter with two Meharisti nomads, 1969.
Jacques Couëlle, 1965
African boy wearing fish trap on his head, 1938. Photo by Erich Andres. Published by ‘Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung.
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South Pacific, 1960. Photo by Gordon W. Gahan. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXWsPz0NrES/?utm_medium=tumblr
Andrée Vilar (Schlegel), 1957.
From “Joie et Beauté dans la maison”, 1957.
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Illa-Tiki, 1995.
“In 1995, John Haslett went to a tiny fishing village in Ecuador to begin building a thirty-thousand-pound raft made entirely of balsa wood, bamboo, and manila rope. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl’s famed Kon-Tiki voyage, Haslett intended to sail five thousand nautical miles across the open sea to Hawaii. What transpired, however, was anything but a recreation of Heyerdahl’s famous voyage.
Over the next five years, Haslett and his crews journeyed through a surreal odyssey of madness, mutiny, obsession, and survival. They lived aboard primitive rafts for months at a time, were marooned in alien worlds, saw one vessel sunk, another abandoned, and another wrecked. Ultimately, Haslett and his colleagues would emerge with new discoveries about a lost culture. "Voyage of the Manteno "is an ancient sea tale, lived by modern men. A tale of hope, survival, and discovery.”
From “Voyage of the Manteño: the education of a modern-day expeditioner” by John Haslett, 2006.
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Robert Wenkam, Molokini volcanic crater, Hawaii, 1959.
“Molokini is a crescent-shaped, partially submerged volcanic crater which forms a small, uninhabited islet located in ʻAlalākeiki Channel between the islands of Maui and Kahoʻolawe, within Maui County in Hawaiʻi. It is the remains of one of the seven Pleistocene epoch volcanoes that formed the prehistoric Maui Nui island, during the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era.”
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El Capitán, 1977. Photo by Charlie Row.
“An unforgettable faceall 3,000 granite feet of it. El Capitan towers above California’s Yosemite Valley, a sheer rock wall, seemingly insurmountable, and by far the most coveted rock climb on earth. El Capitan traces the mountain’s unique history and recounts the vertical adventures had therefrom Warren Harding’s 45-day siege in 1958 up through the recent speed climbs of under 5 hours. Critically acclaimed author Daniel Duane articulates how this massive wall can totally consume a person. Duane profiles the legends who have devoted themselves to El Capitan, including Royal Robbins, Warren Harding, and John Middendorf. Accompanied by 36 moody duotones, El Capitan captures the essence of big wall climbing.
From "El Capitan: historic feats and radical routes” by Daniel Duane, 2000.
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William Morgan, Dunehouse, Florida dunes, 1975. Photo by Elliott Erwit.
From “Solar houses: 48 energy-saving designs” by Louis Oliver Gropp, 1978.
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