Fine Photographs Of The American West Including Alaska Hawaii

Resurrecting scores of rare images of the 19th century American West, "Print the Legend" offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book portrays how Americans first came to understand western photos and to envision their expanding nation. 138 illustrations.

"The focus is photography of the American West with the majority of images depicting places, activities and scenes of the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii. The time span is from the California Gold Rush through the turn of the 20th century. Subjects include mining, railroads, cities and towns, Native Americans and the wars against them, and the wonderful scenery that was meant to awe the viewer. The photographic technologies represented include western examples of many of the earliest photo processes - from daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and salt prints to albumen and silver gelatin prints - in a variety of sizes - from the mammoth plates produced from glass plate negatives taken by oversized cameras that were such a burden for early photographers to carry to the small CDVs that were meant for family albums. Of special interest are the large photo panoramas illustrating western cities and commerce"--Page 3.

The Grass Shall Grow is a succinct introduction to the work and world of Helen M. Post (1907–79), who took thousands of photographs of Native Americans. Although Post has been largely forgotten and even in her heyday never achieved the fame of her sister, Farm Security Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott, Helen Post was a talented photographer who worked on Indian reservations throughout the West and captured images that are both striking and informative. Post produced the pictures for the novelist Oliver La Farge’s nonfiction book As Long As the Grass Shall Grow (1940), among other publications, and her output constitutes a powerful representation of Native American life at that time. Mick Gidley recounts Post’s career, from her coming of age in the turbulent 1930s to her training in Vienna and her work for the U.S. Indian Service, tracking the arc of her professional reputation. He treats her interactions with public figures, including La Farge and editor Edwin Rosskam, and describes her relationships with Native Americans, whether noted craftspeople such as the Sioux quilter Nellie Star Boy Menard, tribal leaders such as Crow superintendent Robert Yellowtail, or ordinary individuals like the people she photographed at work in the fields or laboring for federal projects, at school or in the hospital, cooking or dancing. The images reproduced here are analyzed both for their own sake and in order to understand their connection to broader national concerns, including the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. The thoroughly researched and accessibly written text represents a serious reappraisal of a neglected artist.

Fine art photographs from the western United States of America; subjects include architecture, advertising, landscape, Native American rock art, neon signs, wildlife, and more. With over 50 color photos, by Eric Thome, from little known locations to famous sites.

"Rather than the proverbial melting pot, Wilson asks us to recognize a West that is at least a place where, against a backdrop of aridity and expansive space, diverse lives can and do coexist." --John Rohrbach Renowned photographer Laura Wilson has captured the majesty, as well as the tragedy, of her home region of Texas and the wider West for more than three decades. A former assistant to Richard Avedon, she has published her work to wide acclaim over the past twenty-five years. As seen in this extraordinary book, Wilson's subjects range from legendary West Texas cattle ranches to impoverished Plains Indian reservations to lavish border-town cotillions. Also featured are compelling portraits of artists who are associated with the region, including Donald Judd, Ed Ruscha, and Sam Shepard. The unforgettable images in That Day, most of which are previously unpublished, tell sharply drawn stories of the people and places that have shaped, and continue to shape, the nation's most dynamic and unyielding land. Text from Wilson's journals accompanies the photographs, recalling her personal experiences behind the camera at the moment when a particular image was captured. With her incisive eye, Wilson casts a fresh light on the West--a topic of enduring fascination.

Richard Avedon's In the American West is widely regarded as a landmark project in photographic history and a definitive expression of the power of photographic art. The reissuing of this legendary book, first published by Thames & Hudson in 1985, is a major event in the photography world. Avedon made numerous journeys over a period of five years to the western states of America, from Montana to New Mexico, where he searched out and photographed ordinary working people - a fascinating contrast to the affluent and fashionable subjects he usually portrayed. Here are cattle-ranch workers, miners, drifters, gamblers, bar girls and oil rig workers - men and women who typify the spirit of life in the 'Wild West'. Avedon captured it in their faces, in their posture, in their dress, and he recorded it with passion and superb technical skill. Over a hundred full-page portraits are magnificently reproduced in tritone and are illuminated by Avedon's own explanations of his photographic method and philosophy. In the American West is one of the most original and powerful photographic works ever published; this new edition is certain to become a prized collector's item.

Captures a fresh perspective on traditional western subject matter.

An evocative photographic exploration of Western history presents a series of breathtaking panoramas that capture the scope of the American myth of the West.

Rancher is a photographic tribute to the people and landscape of the American West. Rancher captures the soil and soul of ranching people, their culture and emotions, their land. This book offers an opportunity to see what ranchers do, an opportunity for strangers to look beyond the theme-park West of honky-tonk songs and colored straw hats to the reality of worn boots, stained felt headgear, and of the people's tenacity.