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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

Date

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

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Costume\Headgear\Hat
Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses
Equipment\Smoking Implements\Pipe
Aldo Leopold: Male
Aldo Leopold: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer
Aldo Leopold: Science and Technology\Scientist
Aldo Leopold: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Environmentalist
Portrait

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4b61ba0e1-cc59-4c63-a335-e1b68112259f

Record ID

npg_NPG.2008.56

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