Aspinwall, Jane Lee, 1967- author, curator.

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

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

179 pages : illustrations ; 29 x 29 cm

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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0300208243 (hardcover)

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

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Exhibition.
Exhibition catalogues.
Catalogues raisonnés.
Exhibition catalogs.
Bibliographies.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
catalogs (documents)
Illustrated works
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History
Catalogues d'exposition.
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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

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 287270
Cote: BIB 228183
Statut: Disponible