Aldo Leopold
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Object Details
- Artist
- Thomas Coleman
- Printer
- Mark Gulezian
- Sitter
- Aldo Leopold, 11 Jan 1887 - 21 Apr 1948
- Exhibition Label
- Aldo Leopold began contemplating an ecological approach to conservation in the 1920s. It differed from more utilitarian perspectives advanced by his forestry mentor Gifford Pinchot, who emphasized sustainable resource use. Leopold began his career with the U.S. Forest Service working in national forests in the American Southwest (1909–28). In 1924, he urged the establishment of the world’s first designated wilderness area, Gila Wilderness, within New Mexico’s Gila National Forest.
- Leopold is best remembered for A Sand County Almanac (1949), a posthumous essay collection in which he describes his influential “land ethic,” a philosophical basis for mid-twentieth-century environmentalism. “Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient,” Leopold argued. “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
- Aldo Leopold empezó a contemplar un enfoque ecológico de la conservación en la década de 1920. Este difería de la visión más utilitaria promovida por su mentor de silvicultura, Gifford Pinchot, quien enfatizaba el uso sostenible de los recursos. Leopold comenzó su carrera con el Servicio Forestal de EE.UU. en los bosques nacionales del suroeste del país (1909–28). En 1924 instó a la creación de la primera zona designada “área salvaje” en el mundo, Gila Wilderness, en el Bosque Nacional Gila de Nuevo México.
- Leopold es muy recordado por Almanaque de Sand County (1949), una colección póstuma de ensayos que describen su influyente “ética de la tierra”, una de las bases filosóficas del ambientalismo de mediados del siglo XX. “Examine cada cuestión en términos de lo que es correcto ética y estéticamente, así como apropiado económicamente”, proponía. “Lo correcto es aquello que tiende a preservar la integridad, estabilidad y belleza de la comunidad biótica. Lo incorrecto tiende a hacer lo contrario”.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Aldo Leopold Foundation
- 1939 (printed 2008)
- Object number
- NPG.2008.56
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Inkjet print
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.6 x 24.6 cm (13 5/8 x 9 11/16")
- Sheet: 36.3 x 27.3 cm (14 5/16 x 10 3/4")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism
- On View
- NPG, North Gallery 220
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Headgear\Hat
- Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses
- Equipment\Smoking Implements\Pipe
- Aldo Leopold: Male
- Aldo Leopold: Literature\Writer
- Aldo Leopold: Science and Technology\Scientist
- Aldo Leopold: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Environmentalist
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2008.56
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4b61ba0e1-cc59-4c63-a335-e1b68112259f
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