Английская Википедия:George Masa
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George Masa (c. 1881 – June 21, 1933), born Masahara Izuka, in Osaka, Japan,[1] was a businessman and professional large-format photographer. He lived and worked in the United States.[2]
Biography
Masa arrived in the United States in 1901. In 1915, he settled in Asheville, North Carolina. After initially working for the Grove Park Inn as a bellhop and valet, Masa left the inn to take a position as a photographer in February 1919. He founded Plateau Studio (a business he later sold, which is still in operation today).[3] His customers included some of the town's most affluent citizens such as the Vanderbilt, Grove, and Seely families.
Masa came to love the mountains of western North Carolina and advocated for their preservation, often at his own expense. Using his photographic equipment and an odometer he crafted from an old bicycle,[4] Masa meticulously catalogued a significant number of peaks,[5] the distances between them, and the names given to them by the local settlers and the Cherokee.[3] He was a friend of Horace Kephart,[6] and the two of them worked together to ensure that a large portion of the Great Smoky Mountains would be established as a national park. Masa also scouted and marked the entire North Carolina portion of the Appalachian Trail.[7]
Death and legacy
Masa died in 1933 from influenza. He had desired to be buried next to his good friend Kephart near Bryson City, North Carolina.[8] However with no surviving family or estate, his burial was organized by his local hiking club, and they did not have the necessary funds to do so.[9] Instead, he was buried in Asheville's Riverside Cemetery.[8]
One year after Masa's death, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was officially established.[8][10] In 1961, Masa Knob, a peak of 5,685 feet[11] in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, was named in Masa's honor.[8][12] It stands, appropriately, adjacent to Mount Kephart.
Interest in Masa's life was revived by documentary film-makers more than 60 years after his death. Bonesteel Films released a 90-minute documentary about George Masa in 2003.[13] Also, the fourth episode of Ken Burns's documentary about "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" features Masa (entitled "Going Home," covering the period between 1920 and 1933), which was initially broadcast on September 30, 2009.[9]
See also
Notes
References
- Duncan, Dayton and Ken Burns. (2009). The National Parks: America's Best Idea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Шаблон:ISBN; Шаблон:OCLC. Two useful biographical vignettes of Masa are William A. Hart's "George Masa: The Best Mountaineer," in Robert S. Brunk (Editor), May We All Remember Well," Volume I, pages 249–75 and Jim Casada, "George Masa: Musings on a Man of Myster," Smoky Mountain Living," Fall, 2001, pages 67–70.
External links
- Ken Burns, PBS, "The National Parks," – People Behind the National Parks, George Masa
- Paul Bonesteel, Bonesteel Films, "The Mystery of George Masa"
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- ↑ 9,0 9,1 Ken Burns, PBS, "The National Parks," – People Behind the National Parks, George Masa
- ↑ American Park Network – GSMNP.
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