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[Bradford Washburn]
Portrait of Washburn with his Fairchild Aerial K-6 Camera, 1938
Silver print
8 x 5 1/2 inches; mount 8 1/2 x 11 inches
With typed caption information verso.
With typed caption information verso.
An excellent and scarcely seen portrait of the renowned photographer, explorer, and cartographer. Bradford Washburn was an American explorer, cartographer, and acclaimed photographer who is attributed to recording the definitive...
An excellent and scarcely seen portrait of the renowned photographer, explorer, and cartographer.
Bradford Washburn was an American explorer, cartographer, and acclaimed photographer who is attributed to recording the definitive geographical details of Everest and other mountains of Alaska. Washburn is considered one of the greatest mountaineers during the first half of the 20th century due to his fearless ascents to multiple untouched peaks in Alaska and the Yukon, often alongside his wife Barbara Teel Polk. Due to the perilous environments he worked in, Washburn was an expert in technical photography. His method involved using the Fairchild K-6 large format camera for oblique aerial images that would aid in his map making. He was a trailblazer both literally and figuratively with his early implementation of aerial photography and his decisive fieldwork on Denali, Everest, McKinley, and the Grand Canyon. The thousands of photographs he produced on these expeditions are highly regarded and were featured in magazines such as Life and National Geographic. His works consist of breathtaking black and white scenes of sky and snow; peaks and valleys; taken from an impossible bird’s eye view.
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. was born on June 7, 1910 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to an upper class family. He studied at Harvard University where he joined the Mountaineering Club and eventually received a master’s degree in geology and geography. Washburn’s proclivity for adventure started at an early age, climbing the mountains of Europe and becoming a licensed pilot in his early life. He had a long and accomplished career, making maps as one of the few octogenarians on Everest. Washburn’s expertise in geography and natural science led to his involvement with the founding of Boston’s Museum of Science in 1939, where he served as a director until 1980. Washburn died on January 10, 2007 in Lexington, Massachusetts. He has the title of 12 first ascents in Alaska and has received multiple honors, such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1979; the Cherry Kearton Medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1988; nine honorary doctorates; alongside many others received in tandem with his wife. In 2008, The Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum was created in his honor in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
Bradford Washburn was an American explorer, cartographer, and acclaimed photographer who is attributed to recording the definitive geographical details of Everest and other mountains of Alaska. Washburn is considered one of the greatest mountaineers during the first half of the 20th century due to his fearless ascents to multiple untouched peaks in Alaska and the Yukon, often alongside his wife Barbara Teel Polk. Due to the perilous environments he worked in, Washburn was an expert in technical photography. His method involved using the Fairchild K-6 large format camera for oblique aerial images that would aid in his map making. He was a trailblazer both literally and figuratively with his early implementation of aerial photography and his decisive fieldwork on Denali, Everest, McKinley, and the Grand Canyon. The thousands of photographs he produced on these expeditions are highly regarded and were featured in magazines such as Life and National Geographic. His works consist of breathtaking black and white scenes of sky and snow; peaks and valleys; taken from an impossible bird’s eye view.
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. was born on June 7, 1910 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to an upper class family. He studied at Harvard University where he joined the Mountaineering Club and eventually received a master’s degree in geology and geography. Washburn’s proclivity for adventure started at an early age, climbing the mountains of Europe and becoming a licensed pilot in his early life. He had a long and accomplished career, making maps as one of the few octogenarians on Everest. Washburn’s expertise in geography and natural science led to his involvement with the founding of Boston’s Museum of Science in 1939, where he served as a director until 1980. Washburn died on January 10, 2007 in Lexington, Massachusetts. He has the title of 12 first ascents in Alaska and has received multiple honors, such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1979; the Cherry Kearton Medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1988; nine honorary doctorates; alongside many others received in tandem with his wife. In 2008, The Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum was created in his honor in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.