George Lamont Mancuso rememberance

October 17, 2013 ·

Alain Briot

By: Alain Briot

Alain Briot is one of the most successful landscape photographers working in the American Southwest today. His work is widely exhibited and collected. His monthly column for this web site, of which this is part, is calledBriot's View. An extensive interview with Alain is included in Issue #1 ofThe Luminous Landscape Video Journal.

Lamont and the Grand Canyon

I metGeorge Lamont Mancusoat theGrand Canyon. He liked to use his middle name,Lamont, which was his mother's name. Phonetically Lamont means "the mountain" in French, something I mentioned to him soon after we met.

George knew and liked this connotation. I perceived him as an alpinist ready to climb the Mont Blanc. He preferred to start hiking downhill into "The Mountain Lying Down", as theGrand Canyonis poetically called.

George Mancuso — © Alain Briot

TheGrand Canyon. George's name was attached to it like to no other place. Originally from New York, of Sicilian ancestors, Georg...

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