196:, gives the book a rather stronger coffee-table flavour, is generally as first-class as we expect of him. Occasionally it is beyond adjectives, notably hls color, in which his flair for catching the play of light on snowy mountaintops, sheep's backs, birds' feathers, alpine flowers, boulders chalets, trees and other objects is impressively expressed." Craig McGregor regarded Gritscher as amongst a few who had "made the crucial breakthrough in Australian photography", and in
124:"Some of the world's most wonderful and bizarre trees are here, unmatched in their variety of colour, texture, and shape. The most fascinating discovery for me was the huge stretches of untouched land I saw when I walked through and camped on the lonely high plains . . . There was not one sign that a human being had walked there before; only the weird and unreal shapes of dead trees and rocks and an unspeakable quietness and melancholy over the whole land."
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to write the text. Of the process of taking the photographs he remembered, "with every day I spent in those mountains I discovered more beautiful things, and my life became richer, sentiments on which he elaborated in interview;
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Returning to Europe in 1970, Gritscher continued to produce illustrations there for ski stories. and he was represented by Aspect picture library, London, which distributed his photographs to publishers including Life books,
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Gritscher died, aged 82, on 24 November 2015 in
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