Steve Wall

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Steve Wall (born June 28, 1946 in North Carolina ) is an American photographer and writer of documentary books and magazine articles.

Life

Wall initially worked for a magazine in Chattanooga, rather he worked as a photographer in more than forty countries for the Black Star picture agency and the United Press International news agency . In 1978 he joined the National Geographic Society as a freelancer . For this he made, among other things, nature photos for articles in the National Geographic magazine . His main topics were often socially critical, such as a report on the resettlement of Vietnamese boat people on the Mississippi (issue: Troubled Odyssey of Vietnamese FishermenSeptember 1981), about the desecration of a Native American burial site, on the bones of the deceased by grave robbers or environmental problems on the Chattooga River in Georgia.

His contributions were, for example, in National Geographic Magazine Volume 163 No. 4 or America's wild and scenic rivers 1983 (published in German as Untamed - America's wild, beautiful rivers ), in the issue Exploring America's scenic highways 1985 and in National Geographic Magazine Volume 172, No. 3 from 1987. His works have been shown at exhibitions in galleries, museums and collections, for example in the International Center of Photography in New York or the Art Gallery of the Moscow Union of Artists. Together with the author Harvey Arden , he wrote several books in particular on the life and thoughts of the indigenous peoples of North America. In more than 15 years he traveled through the states and visited the elders of some peoples, talked to their healers and photographed them for posterity.

Works (selection)

  • Steve Wall: Appalachian life along the Blue Ridge Parkway . Thomasson-Grant, Inc., Charlottesville, Va. 1987, ISBN 0-934738-23-8 .
  • Steve Wall, Harvey Arden: Guardians of the Earth. Encounters with Indians from North America . Ed .: Monika Thaler. Frederking and Thaler, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-89405-307-0 (English: Wisdomkeepers . Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders . Translated by Ursula Wolf).
  • Steve Wall, Harvey Arden: Daughters of Wisdom. Conversations with Indian women (=  Heyne non-fiction book . No. 539 ). Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12317-4 (English: Wisdom's Daughters: Conversations With Women Elders of Native America . New York, NY 1993. Translated by Karin Petersen).
  • Steve Wall: Shadowcatchers. A journey in search of the teachings of Native American healers . HarperPerennial, New York 1995, ISBN 0-06-092672-4 .
  • Steve Wall: Dancing with God. Americans who have been touched by the Divine . St. Martin's Press, New York 1998, ISBN 0-312-18562-6 .
  • Steve Wall, Harvey Arden: Travels in a Stone Canoe. The Return to the Wisdomkeepers . Simon and Schuster, 1998, ISBN 978-0-684-80094-3 ( books.google.de - reading sample).

Web links

  • We're still here. Onondaga Nation, June 1, 2005, accessed March 21, 2017 (Onondaga images from Wall).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Steve Wall. In: LibraryThing. librarything.com, accessed March 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ National geographic - the pictures. The legendary photo archive from 1888 to today . National Geographic, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86690-127-8 , pp. 484 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ Wisdomkeepers. Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders. Barnes & Noble, accessed on March 21, 2017 ( Meet the authors section ).
personal data
SURNAME Wall, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH North Carolina