Malcolm Greany

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Woman with child on Attu, photo by M. Greany, 1941

John Malcolm Greany , mostly J. Malcolm Greany (born April 23, 1915 in Philadelphia , † July 27, 1999 in Hood River , Oregon ), was an American wildlife photographer .

Life

Greany grew up in Detroit and came to Juneau , Alaska for the first time in 1936 , where he learned photography. In the same year he accompanied the Reverend Bernard Hubbard on an expedition along the Taku River . After his marriage in 1938, Greany and his wife moved permanently to Juneau. During the Second World War he worked as a photographer for the US Army, including on the " MS Brown Bear " in the Aleutian region . In the summer of 1941 he photographed the locals and their way of life on the westernmost Aleutian island of Attu . In 1942 the island was captured by the Japanese army and the population deported . Only 25 of the original 47 inhabitants survived, the settlement on Attu was never rebuilt. Greany's photos are therefore the last documents about the population of Attus. In September 1944, Greany accompanied an army search expedition as a photographer for a Douglas C-47 that had crashed in uncharted territory east of Mount McKinley .

One of Greany's portraits of Ansel Adams

Greany later worked as a freelance photographer and worked for various public and government offices in Alaska, most recently for the US Forest Service in Missoula . His nature photographs became internationally known and appeared in Time Magazine and National Geographic , among others . His portraits of Ansel Adams , with whom he had a long-standing friendship and collaboration, also became famous. In return, Adams also made recordings of Greany.

In 1974 Greany retired in Hood River, the birth town of his wife Irene. He was married to Irene for 61 years, until his death in 1999, and the couple had five children together.

Publications

  • Alaskan Cookbook. Howell-North, 1960 (with photographs by M. Greany)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Obituary ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The Juneau Empire, August 5, 1999 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / juneauempire.com
  2. Gayle Goedde: Malcolm Greany, Papers and Photographs: Aleutian Islands, 1941. Alaska State Library Historical Collections, MS 253, 2009
  3. ^ Grant H. Pearson: My Life of High Adventure . Prentice-Hall, 1962, pp. 190ff
  4. Malcolm Greany ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Photo by Ansel Adams, ca.1947, University of Arizona Libraries @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ccp.uair.arizona.edu