03633nam 2200613 450 991079097530332120230803220839.00-8263-5423-8(CKB)2550000001191729(EBL)1602928(SSID)ssj0001112647(PQKBManifestationID)11639768(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112647(PQKBWorkID)11161418(PQKB)11633777(MiAaPQ)EBC1602928(OCoLC)869735806(MdBmJHUP)muse34583(Au-PeEL)EBL1602928(CaPaEBR)ebr10832596(CaONFJC)MIL571137(EXLCZ)99255000000119172920140209h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMeaningful places landscape photographers in the nineteenth-century American West /Rachel McLean Sailor. ; book design, Catherine LeonardoAlbuquerque, [New Mexico] :University of New Mexico Press,2014.©20141 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8263-5422-X 1-306-39886-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Pictures6: Frontier Photography and Early Modernism: Ansel Adams's Sierra Nevada: The John Muir TrailAfterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover"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"--Provided by publisher.Landscape photographyWest (U.S.)History19th centuryPhotographersWest (U.S.)History19th centuryLandscape photographyHistoryPhotographersHistory770.92HIS036140PHO010000bisacshSailor Rachel McLean1970-1579313Leonardo Catherine1579314MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790975303321Meaningful places3859325UNINA