In The Impulse to Preserve, filmmaker Robert Gardner reflects on a life spent observing, recording, and illuminating the human condition in some of the most remote regions of the world. Originally published in 2006, this lavishly illustrated book is now distributed by the Peabody Museum Press.

Filmmaker Robert Gardner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; founding director of Harvard Film Study Center (1957-1997); former director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts; faculty member, Department of Anthropology and Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, 1960-2000. He is the author of The Impulse to Preserve (2006) and Making Dead Birds: Chronicle of a Film (2007).

Read More by Robert Gardner:

• Making <i>Forest of Bliss</i>: Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonfiction Film
• Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961
• Making <i>Dead Birds</i>: Chronicle of a Film
• Human Documents: Eight Photographers