Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe

by Peter Goin, C. Elizabeth Raymond, Robert E. Blesse

Overview

Starting with a variety of nineteenth-century photographs, the authors have provided over fifty comparative photographs representing a visual document of the evolving landscape within the Tahoe basin. Lake Tahoe attracted tourists in droves in the late nineteenth century, but the logging industry wrought extensive damage to the land.

Stopping Time confronts issues that have come to the fore in the late twentieth century—how we use the land, how we perceive the landscape, and what our perceptions mean for the future. The notion of an "ideal landscape" is explored in Elizabeth Raymond's informative essay, and how that notion itself has evolved since the nineteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826312853
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	05/01/1992
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	10.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Peter Goin teaches photography and video at the University of Nevada, Reno. His other books include Tracing the Line: A Photographic Survey of the Mexican-American Border and Nuclear Landscapes.

Editorial Reviews

"Stopping Time" is a book that many people will enjoy. It is also a book that will invite its readers to think seriously about the impact of man on the land.

This book about the Lake of the Sky is fascinating on many levels. . . . the book offers a unique and disturbing visual record of human impact on a beautiful and fragile place. . . . "Stopping Time" presents an important chapter in the evolution of environmental cultural awareness.

"Stopping Time is a book that many people will enjoy. It is also a book that will invite its readers to think seriously about the impact of man on the land."

From the Publisher

A brilliant idea, beautifully executed--51 pairs of photographs that provide comparative views documenting landscape change in Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake, and Truckee, California between the 1870s and the 1950s, and revealing the evolving relationship between landscape and human society over time. Includes an essay by C. Elizabeth Raymond. 10.5 x 11 Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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