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Meaningful Places : Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West /

"The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era...

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Auteur principal: Sailor, Rachel McLean, 1970- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Daguerreotypy and the Landscape: Thomas Easterly, St. Louis, and the Big Mound; 2: Landscape Cartes de Visite: Joel Whitney, Hiawatha, and Minnehaha Falls; 3: Wet Plate Collodion and Western Monuments: Peter Britt and Crater Lake; 4: The Photographic Album: Solomon Butcher in Custer County, Nebraska; 5: Performing the Pioneer: The Kolbs, the Grand Canyon, Photographic Self-Representation, and Moving Pictures.
  • 6: Frontier Photography and Early Modernism: Ansel Adams's Sierra Nevada: The John Muir TrailAfterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.