Alexander Gardner : the Western photographs, 1867-1868 / Jane L. Aspinwall ; director's foreword by Julián Zugazagoitia ; preface by Keith F. Davis.

Main entry:

Aspinwall, Jane Lee, 1967- author, curator.

Title & Author:

Alexander Gardner : the Western photographs, 1867-1868 / Jane L. Aspinwall ; director's foreword by Julián Zugazagoitia ; preface by Keith F. Davis.

Publication:

Kansas City, Missouri : Hall Family Foundation : Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [2014]
New Haven : Yale University Press.
©2014

Description:

179 pages : illustrations ; 29 x 29 cm

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.
Director's foreword -- Preface -- The life of Alexander Gardner -- Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad -- Across the continent -- Scenes in the Indian country -- Scenes in the Indian country -- Catalogue raisonné -- Stereoviews.

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.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300208245 (hardcover)
0300208243 (hardcover)

Subject:

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Exhibitions.
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Indians of North America Great Plains Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Documentary photography United States 19th century Exhibitions.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis 19e siècle Expositions.
HISTORY United States Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Documentary photography
Indians of North America
Photography
United States History Photography Exhibitions.
États-Unis Histoire Photographie Expositions.
Great Plains
United States

Form/genre:

Catalog
Exhibition.
Exhibition catalogues.
Catalogues raisonnés.
Exhibition catalogs.
Bibliographies.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
catalogs (documents)
Illustrated works
Catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
History
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Zugazagoitia, Julián, writer of foreword.
Davis, Keith F., 1952- writer of preface.
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882. Photographs. Selections.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, organizer, issuing body.
Hall Family Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.), issuing body.

Western photographs, 1867-1868

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287270
Call No.: BIB 228183
Status: Available

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