Kolb Studio

The Kolb Brothers became Grand Canyon legends through a daring and persistent photography business that grew alongside canyon tourism. Ellsworth Kolb arrived in 1901 and Emery in 1902, and their business began in a tent before eventually producing more than 250,000 photographs. As adventurers, they explored remote areas of the canyon with cameras in hand. In 1911-1912 they made the first motion picture of a river trip through the canyon, and Emery presented that film there for nearly 60 years. Ellsworth left Grand Canyon in 1924, but Emery stayed and ran the studio with his wife and daughter until his death there in 1976 at age 95, after a life spent preserving Grand Canyon on film.

Grand Canyon Village, Arizona · United States