Cedric Wright (1889-1959), music teacher, violinist, and one of the most significant Sierra Club outings photographers, turned to photography in his middle years. On one of his 1920s High Trips, he met and befriended Ansel Adams, and they remained close friends thereafter.
Many of Adams's well-known Sierra Nevada photographs were taken in Wright's company. In 1960, after Wright's death, Sierra Club Books published Words of the Earth as a memorial to this outstanding photographer who contributed so much of his talent as a Sierra Club volunteer. The book, edited by Nancy Newhall, was dedicated to William E. Colby, and has a foreword by Ansel Adams.
Little Five Lakes and Kaweah Peaks.
By Cedric Wright [#0207]
Dr. Harold Crowe.
By Cedric Wright [#0292-2]
Juniper detail.
By Cedric Wright [#0327]
Cathedral Peak and others near Tuolumne Meadows.
By Cedric Wright [#0347]
David Johnson and Joanne Wright, atop Mt. Whitney at sunset.
By Cedric Wright [#0536]
The Kaweahs from Little Five Lakes.
By Cedric Wright [#0660]
Rhea Wright, Mt. Ritter and Mt. Banner, from Shadow Lake.
By Cedric Wright [#0844-5]
David Brower playing accordion.
By Cedric Wright [#1087-2]
Two figures with the Kaweahs in the distance.
By Cedric Wright [#1104-2]
Two figures at lake.
By Cedric Wright [#12146-2]
Interior dome of Muir Hut.
By Cedric Wright [#1880]
Muir Dawson, climbing with rope.
By Cedric Wright [#1918]