In George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina, poet and environmental organizer Brent Martin explores the locations Masa visited, using first-person narratives to contrast, lament, and exalt the condition of the landscape the photographer so loved and worked to interpret and protect. The book includes seventy-five of Masa's photographs, accompanied by Martin's reflections on Masa's life and work.
Masa is intimately tied to the Highlands Plateau through his work for Frank Cook, owner of the Highlands Inn, over a few short weeks in 1929. The Historical Society is proud to possess approximately 100 of his prints and has on display copies of some of the most interesting in our museum.
by: Brent Martin
