Across the continent : the Union Pacific photographs of Andrew J. Russell /

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"Andrew J. Russell is primarily known as the man who photographed the famous "East and West Shaking Hands" image of the Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. He also took nearly one thousand other images that document almost every aspect of the construction of the Union PacificRailro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Daniel (Photography curator) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press : Utah State Historical Society, [2018]
Temas:
Russell, Andrew J.
Union Pacific Railroad Company > History > Pictorial works.
Central Pacific Railroad Company > History > Pictorial works.
Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1800-1899
Photography of railroads.
Railroads > United States > History > 19th century > Pictorial works.
Photographers > United States.
Photographie de chemins de fer.
Photographes > États-Unis.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Subjects & Themes > General.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > General.
Photographers.
Railroads.
West (U.S.) > History > Pictorial works.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés.
United States.
West United States.
photobooks.
Photobooks.
History.
Pictorial works.
Livres de photographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The forgotten photographer
  • A.J. Russell and the golden age of Western photography
  • Russell in New York and during the Civil War (1829-1865)
  • The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads and the use of photography (1862-1868)
  • Russell's first trip out West (1868)
  • Russell's second trip West and the Golden Spike Ceremony (1869)
  • Documenting the West (Summer and Fall of 1869)
  • Leslie's Illustrated and the market in photographs after 1870
  • Russell's images and the rise and decline of Western photography
  • Epilogue: the forgotten photographs of the Union Pacific, from obscurity to rediscovery
  • Catalog of Russell's Union Pacific photographs.

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