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Images of the West : survey photography in French collections, 1860-1880 / edited by François Brunet and Bronwyn Griffith ; essays by François Brunet and Mick Gidley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gidley, M. (Mick), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photographers--West (U.S.)--Exhibitions.
- Photographers.
- Photography--West (U.S.)--History--Exhibitions.
- Photography.
- West (U.S.)--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- West (U.S.).
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition, pictorial works.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (135 pages) : 97 illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
- Place of Publication:
- Giverny : Musée d'Art Américain ; [Chicago] : Terra Foundation for American Art, [2007]
- Summary:
- "As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photographs from these federal surveys. The selection includes breathtaking views of such iconic sites as Yosemite, as well as lesser-known ethnographic portraits taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, William H. Jackson, and William Bell, among others. The accompanying essays discuss how the photographs were used to promote white settlement, how their distribution at home and abroad contributed to the aggrandizement of the American West, and how the exploitative ideology underlying the use of photography extended to attitudes toward both American landscapes and American Indians"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- "With the compliments of F.V. Hayden, geologist of the United States" : photographic policies of American exploration
- Francois Brunet Out west and in the studio : official photographs of Indians during the great survey era
- Mick Gidley Catalogue Wide open spaces
- Features of the landscape
- Timothy H. O'Sullivan : a photographer at work
- Images of Native Americans.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on March 18, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-133) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300260175
- 0300260172
- OCLC:
- 609029319
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