Meaningful places : landscape photographers in the nineteenth-century American West

✍ Scribed by Sailor, Rachel McLean

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 237
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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. Art historian Rachel Sailor points out that most photographers in the West were engaged in producing images for their local communities. These pictures didn't just entertain the settlers but gave them a way to understand their new home. Photographs could help the settlers adjust to their new circumstances by recording the development of a place--revealing domestication, alteration, and improvement.

The book explores the cultural complexity of regional landscape photography, western places, and local sociopolitical concerns. Photographic imagery, like western paintings from the same era, enabled Euro-Americans to see the new landscape through their own cultural lenses, shaping the idea of the frontier for the people who lived there.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.

✦ Subjects

Landscape photography -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century. Photographers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) PHOTOGRAPHY -- History. COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography. PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems. Landscape ph

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