dinsdag, maart 04, 2003
Luis Marden, a legendary explorer, photographer and writer for the National Geographic Society, died of complications from Parkinson's disease on Monday at age 90, the society said. Born Annibale Luigi Paragallo in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Marden spent 64 years with National Geographic, where he is remembered as a "legend" and "the last of the old-time adventurers."
Marden, who arrived at the Geographic in 1934, pioneered 35mm color and underwater photography, discovered the remains of Williams Bligh's "Bounty" off Pitcairn Island in 1975 and with his wife, a mathematician, replotted the route Christopher Columbus sailed from the Canary Islands to the New World. He contributed more than 60 articles to National Geographic as a writer or photographer or both, including an account of his 1955 voyage aboard Jacques-Yves Cousteau's yacht Calypso.
Marden authored two books: "Color Photography With the Miniature Camera," and "The Angler's Bamboo," a book about the making of classic bamboo fly fishing rods. "There didn't seem to be a corner of the universe that didn't interest him. He never just covered a story; he lived it -- rather; he inhabited it -- wrapping himself in the subject as if in a cashmere coat," Newman wrote in the article, entitled "The Art of Being Luis Marden."
Bron: Reuters.
Marden, who arrived at the Geographic in 1934, pioneered 35mm color and underwater photography, discovered the remains of Williams Bligh's "Bounty" off Pitcairn Island in 1975 and with his wife, a mathematician, replotted the route Christopher Columbus sailed from the Canary Islands to the New World. He contributed more than 60 articles to National Geographic as a writer or photographer or both, including an account of his 1955 voyage aboard Jacques-Yves Cousteau's yacht Calypso.
Marden authored two books: "Color Photography With the Miniature Camera," and "The Angler's Bamboo," a book about the making of classic bamboo fly fishing rods. "There didn't seem to be a corner of the universe that didn't interest him. He never just covered a story; he lived it -- rather; he inhabited it -- wrapping himself in the subject as if in a cashmere coat," Newman wrote in the article, entitled "The Art of Being Luis Marden."
Bron: Reuters.
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