William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape

Temple Univ Pr. Very Good. No Jacket Very Good. No Jacket 0.8 x 11.0 x 8.8 inches. Condition very good, no DJ, very clean tight copy. From Library Journal-The author of Silver Cities (Temple Univ. Pr., 1984), a study of urbanization, has produced this well-researched and provocative examination of a photographer who engendered the "twin myths of the radical individual and the free landscape. " Chronological chapters explore many phaseshis early influences, his survey and exploration assignments, his commercial photography, his painting career. Jackson's work made him a "powerful progenitor of the changes in the American conception of the West and of landscape in general. " Includes a chronology of his life and work and an excellent bibliographical essay. An excellent look at his work in the broader context of the changing American landscape. Kathleen Collins, Library of Congress Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description Acclaimed in the nineteenth century as "the world's most famous landscape photographer, " William Henry Jackson and his camera presided over the mapping, bounding, and settling of the American West and the larger American landscape. In this lavishly illustrated study, Peter B. Hales investigates the conversion of America's landscape from myth to scenery and Jackson's effect on this cultural transformation. In this book Peter B. Hales examines the ways Americans viewed their land, and the ways they acted on their beliefs. A study of how an individual affects and was affected by his culture, this is an engrossing story of the contradictions of American culture, the myths that encompass it and give it meaning, and their transformation over a century. William Henry Jackson himself is rich material for an authoritative study. Not simply a chronicler, he immersed himself and his photographs in the processes of change that swept America from the 1840s until the 1940s. Official photographer to... . Very Good. Paperback. 1996.