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East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
Diane Waggoner
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Description for East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
Hardback. An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes Num Pages: 288 pages, 222 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AGN; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 241. Weight in Grams: 1770.
An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of 19th-century American landscape photography, many photographers were working in the eastern half of the United States during that period. Their pictures, with the exception of Civil War images, have received relatively scant attention. Redressing this imbalance is East of the Mississippi, the first book to focus exclusively on the arresting eastern photographs that helped shape America's national identity. Celebrating natural wonders such as Niagara Falls and the White Mountains ... Read more
An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of 19th-century American landscape photography, many photographers were working in the eastern half of the United States during that period. Their pictures, with the exception of Civil War images, have received relatively scant attention. Redressing this imbalance is East of the Mississippi, the first book to focus exclusively on the arresting eastern photographs that helped shape America's national identity. Celebrating natural wonders such as Niagara Falls and the White Mountains ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1769g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300224016
SKU
V9780300224016
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About Diane Waggoner
Diane Waggoner is curator of 19th-century photographs at the National Gallery of Art. Russell Lord is the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Jennifer Raab is assistant professor of the history of art at Yale University.
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