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Alexander Gardner : the Western photographs, 1867-1868 / Jane L. Aspinwall ; director's foreword by Julián Zugazagoitia ; preface by Keith F. Davis.
Van Pelt Library TR681.I58 A87x 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aspinwall, Jane Lee, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882--Exhibitions.
- Gardner, Alexander.
- Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Indians of North America.
- Documentary photography--United States--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Documentary photography.
- History.
- Photography.
- United States--History--Photography--Exhibitions.
- United States.
- Great Plains.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages : illustrations ; 29 x 29 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven : Yale University Press.
- Other Title:
- Western photographs, 1867-1868
- Place of Publication:
- Kansas City, Mo. : Hall Family Foundation in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [2014]
- Summary:
- Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian County. In 1867, after joining the survey team for what became the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Gardner photographed the path of the proposed extension, emphasizing the ease of future railroad construction and economic development, while including studies of American Indians and settlements along the way. The following year, Gardner recorded peace talks with Indian tribes at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Distinctly sympathetic to the plight of the American Indian, Gardner made candid documentation of individual chiefs, their encampments and daily life, burial trees, and the peace proceedings themselves. With a full catalogue raisonné of these two rare series, this volume offers a complete visual index of these remarkable photographs, made at a critical moment in the history of the American West.
- Contents:
- Director's foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The life of Alexander Gardner
- Chapter 2. Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad
- Plates. Across the continent
- Chapter 3. Scenes in the Indian country
- Plates. Scenes in the Indian country
- Catalogue raisonné
- Stereoviews
- Selected bibliography
- Photography credits
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Published to accompany an exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 25, 2014 - January 11, 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-177).
- Contains:
- Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882. Photographs. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9780300208245
- 0300208243
- OCLC:
- 881612576
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