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One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
Joel Snyder
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Description for One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
Paperback. Focusing on the photographic panoramas, assemblages of individual images joined together to form a continuous, horizontal landscape view, this title brings together a group of photographs by William Bell and Timothy H O'Sullivan. It investigates their role and purpose, taking into account the larger context of nineteenth-century modes of viewing. Num Pages: 120 pages, 70 colour plates. BIC Classification: AJC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 576.
Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photographers who joined expeditions in the 1860s and 1870s, opened the eyes of nineteenth-century Americans to the western frontier. Highlighting a recent Smart Museum of Art acquisition, "One/Many" brings together an exquisite group of photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan. Particularly noteworthy are their photographic panoramas, assemblages of individual images joined together to form a continuous, horizontal landscape view. These panoramas have not been exhibited in well over a ... Read more
Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photographers who joined expeditions in the 1860s and 1870s, opened the eyes of nineteenth-century Americans to the western frontier. Highlighting a recent Smart Museum of Art acquisition, "One/Many" brings together an exquisite group of photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan. Particularly noteworthy are their photographic panoramas, assemblages of individual images joined together to form a continuous, horizontal landscape view. These panoramas have not been exhibited in well over a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Smart Museum Of Art, The University Of C
Condition
New
Number of Pages
125
Place of Publication
Chicago, IL, United States
ISBN
9780935573435
SKU
V9780935573435
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About Joel Snyder
Joel Snyder is professor of art history at the University of Chicago and coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.
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