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Join us as we celebrate AAPI month learning more about George Masa and our region.
George Masa’s Wild Vision<\/em>\u00a0recounts the incredible, overlooked life of the photographer George Masa.
<\/strong>Self-taught photographer George Masa (born Masahara Iizuka in Osaka, Japan), arrived in Asheville, North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century amid a period of great transition in the southern Appalachians.
Masa’s photographs from the 1920s and early 1930s are stunning windows into an era where railroads hauled out the remaining old-growth timber with impunity, new roads were blasted into hillsides, and an activist community emerged to fight for a new national park. Masa began photographing the nearby mountains and helping to map the Appalachian Trail, capturing this transition like no other photographer of his time. His images, along with his knowledge of the landscape, became a critical piece of the argument for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, compelling John D. Rockefeller to donate $5 million for initial land purchases. Despite being hailed as the \u201cAnsel Adams of the Smokies,\u201d Masa died, destitute and unknown, in 1933.
In\u00a0George Masa\u2019s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina<\/em>, poet and environmental organizer Brent Martin explores the locations Masa visited, using first-person narratives to contrast, lament, and exalt the condition of the landscape the photographer so loved and worked to interpret and protect. The book includes seventy-five of Masa\u2019s photographs, accompanied by Martin\u2019s reflections on Masa\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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