Philip Hyde (1921-2006) is a famous landscape photographer that studied at the Ansel Adams program at the California School of Fine Arts. Hyde was the lead photographer for the Sierra Club, a environmental activist group. The Sierra club started a coalition of activists to protest dam projects on the Colorado River and in the Grand Canyon. The club published a book called "Time and The River Flowing" in 1964 to campaign against these dams which proven to be successful. Hyde was the photographer for this book. Philip Hyde began making color photographs in 1948. The Sierra club published many books with Hyde's color photos starting in 1968. All of his work was intended to bring awareness to the threats on wilderness brought on by civilization. Philip Hyde died in 2006.
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