In this illustrated study, Peter Hales examines the landscape photographer William Henry Jackson's effect on the ways Americans viewed their land and on the myths that sustain American culture.
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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.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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An examination of the work of "the world's most famous landscape photographer"
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Born and raised in rural Connecticut, Peter Bacon Hales graduated from Haverford College in 1972. After a short period in New York as a photographer, writer and musician, he moved to Texas, where he studied with the photographers Russell Lee and Garry Winogrand and the cultural historians William H. Goetzmann and William Stott, receiving MA and Ph.D. degrees in American Civilization. While in Texas, he was a part of Austin's rich music scene, playing pedal steel guitar in c&w bands and lead guitar in the Texas Express, a Chicano-conjunto-rock quartet based in Lockhart, Texas. After living and photographing in San Francisco and Los Angeles, he completed his first book, SILVER CITIES: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN URBANIZATION, which was published by Temple University Press in 1984, winning a number of academic and writing prizes. Since that time he has written essays and books looking at aspects of the American cultural landscape, from the American West to the postwar suburbs. ATOMIC SPACES: LIVING ON THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, published in 1999, won the Hoover Prize and was runner-up for the Parkman Prize in American History. Long out of print and in demand, his seminal SILVER CITIES was published in a vastly expanded and revised form by the University of New Mexico Press in 2006. For many years a faculty member in the Art History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he has collaborated with photographers, writers and scholars in Chicago and across the globe on writing, visual, and web-based projects. He was the founding director of UIC's American Studies Institute, which runs programs for teachers and scholars around the globe. Currently dividing his time between Chicago and a small farm in Stone Ridge, New York, he continues to write about, and photograph, the changing American landscape.
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This review is from: William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape (Hardcover)
This review is about the hardback 1st edition from Temple University Press, 1988.
A substantial book, oblong hardback, cloth over boards, over 3 pounds, 355 pp. Something like 200 b&w illustrations. Chronology. Index. Over 45 pp of bibliographic information: bibliographic and narrative End Notes and an Essay on the Sources. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Construction of the Vision Learning Landscapes The Transportable View Transforming the View The Commercial Traveller The Frontier Thesis The Imperial Frontier Incorporated Man Man as Myth Epilogue
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