On Monday, June 6, beginning at 7 p.m., Frontier Homestead State Park will host a program highlighting the photography of George A. Grant in celebration of the National Park Service Centennial when Ren and Helen Davis present “Landscapes for the People.” The event is free and open to the public.
Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography. Millions of people viewed Grant’s photographs just as they did the work of contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and others. However, unlike those contemporaries, Grant’s name remained relatively unknown. “Landscapes for the People” shares his story through his photography and a biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication, and a love of the natural and historic places that Americans chose to preserve.
A Pennsylvania native, Grant was introduced to the parks during the summer of 1922 and resolved to make parks and photography his life. Seven years later, he received his dream job and spent the next 25 years visiting the four corners of the country to produce images in more than 100 national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, and other locations. He was there to visually document the dramatic expansion of the National Park Service during the New Deal, including the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
For more information call (435) 586-9290, or email frontierhomestead@utah.gov. Frontier Homestead State Park Museum is located at 635 North Main in Cedar City, Utah.
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