Untitled (Red River Gorge #48: Inverted Tree)

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In 1967, Meatyard's friend, the poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry, invited him to collaborate on a book that would convey the essence and importance of the Red River Gorge, a Kentucky wilderness area slated for flooding by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Berry's essay and Meatyard's photographs, published together in a 1971 book called 'The Unforseen Wilderness', certainly contributed to the successful campaign to save the gorge. Meatyard's photographs show not an idyllic landscape but instead present varied faces of nature - light and darkness, beauty and awesome force.

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