| Description |
260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Landscape consciousness -- Photography and American culture at midcentury -- American landscape and the European antecedents -- Western adventures outdoors -- Photographers in Yosemite 1861-1868 -- Western railroads and the landscape of travel -- Government patronage -- Science, nature, and art -- Photographers, artists, and critics -- The experimental esthetic -- Landscape and the published photograph -- The end of the era -- Chronology -- Carleton E. Watkins, 1829-1916 -- Timothy H. O'Sullivan, about 1840-1882 -- Eadweard J. Muybridge, 1830-1904 -- Andrew Joseph Russell, 1830-1902 -- William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942 |
| Summary |
A comprehensive history of American landscape photograph in the West after the invention of wet-colliodion plates presents a view of the philosophical, esthetic and scientific climate that produced a fascination with the West's landscapes and a sophisticated means of recording it. Includes 314 black-and-white photographs |
| Analysis |
Landscape photography West (U.S.) |
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West (U.S.) Pictorial works |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 256-258 |
| Subject |
Landscape photography -- West (U.S.)
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Landscape photography.
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Photography -- United States -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Aerial views.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005498
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United States -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140007
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West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117423
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| Author |
Wood, James N., author
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| LC no. |
75009694 |
| ISBN |
0870991280 |
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0870991299 (paperback) |
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