The American space : meaning in nineteenth-century landscape photography / edited and with notes by Daniel Wolf ; introduction by Robert Adams.

Title & Author:

The American space : meaning in nineteenth-century landscape photography / edited and with notes by Daniel Wolf ; introduction by Robert Adams.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [1983]
Scranton, Pennsylvania : Distributed by Harper & Row
©1983

Description:

xii, 122 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 37 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 122).
Also issued online.

Summary:

These photographs were taken by some 22 amateur and professional photographers between the years 1842 and 1906. Most are of the West -Yosemite and Yellowstone, the Colorado and Columbia rivers, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, but included are photographs of Brooklyn and Rochester, New York and New Hampshire. The majority of the prints are albumen; but this collections includes daguerrotypes, platinum prints, platinogypes, and bromide prints. Among the artists are Timothy O'Sullivan, William Henry Jackson, Carleton Watkins, H. H. Bennet and Eadweard Muybridge."

ISBN:

081955071X
9780819550712

Subject:

Landscape photography.
Landscape photography Pictorial works.
Photographie de paysages Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie de paysages.
United States Pictorial works.
USA Weststaaten
United States 1840-1900

Form/genre:

Landscape photography.
Bildband.
photobooks.
Pictorial works
Photobooks.
Illustrated works.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Wolf, Daniel, 1955- editor.
Adams, Robert, 1937- writer of introduction.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.). Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 96272
Call No.: POM499; ID:85-B1444
Status: Available

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