Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008638694/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 25 of
25
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Throughout the nineteenth century, the drive to explore and conquer the American West was evocatively captured in lush photographic imagery. The convergence of photography's invention with western expansion has left a rich legacy of visual materials that document and comment upon the vast spaces, mysterious features, and "exotic" peoples of the trans-Mississippi territory. The Great Wide Open focuses on concepts of the "panoramic", or the wide-angle view, tracing how this specific form of visual representation amplified the idea of the American West as a supposedly virgin and sparsely populated land of endless resources, and an ideal landscape for American enterprise." "Covering topics ranging from settlement to tourism and environmental change, The Great Wide Open examines myths of transition from uncivilized vastness to civilized order, the ongoing dialogue between the past and the present, and the creation of new narratives as well as the substantiation of old ones. Forty plates of panoramic photographs of the American West, dating from the 1850s to the present day - including work by Eadweard Muybridge, E.O. Goldbeck, Carleton E. Watkins, and, among contemporary photographers, Mark Klett, Catherine Opie, Karen Halverson, and Gus Foster - chart the mythologization of the American Dream."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12097831.
- catalog contributor b12097832.
- catalog contributor b12097833.
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Pictorial works Exhibitions.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Throughout the nineteenth century, the drive to explore and conquer the American West was evocatively captured in lush photographic imagery. The convergence of photography's invention with western expansion has left a rich legacy of visual materials that document and comment upon the vast spaces, mysterious features, and "exotic" peoples of the trans-Mississippi territory. The Great Wide Open focuses on concepts of the "panoramic", or the wide-angle view, tracing how this specific form of visual representation amplified the idea of the American West as a supposedly virgin and sparsely populated land of endless resources, and an ideal landscape for American enterprise." "Covering topics ranging from settlement to tourism and environmental change, The Great Wide Open examines myths of transition from uncivilized vastness to civilized order, the ongoing dialogue between the past and the present, and the creation of new narratives as well as the substantiation of old ones. Forty plates of panoramic photographs of the American West, dating from the 1850s to the present day - including work by Eadweard Muybridge, E.O. Goldbeck, Carleton E. Watkins, and, among contemporary photographers, Mark Klett, Catherine Opie, Karen Halverson, and Gus Foster - chart the mythologization of the American Dream."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158).".
- catalog extent "160 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1858941326".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Merrell,".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Pictorial works Exhibitions.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "779.3678 21".
- catalog subject "Landscape photography West (U.S.) Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Photography, Panoramic West (U.S.) Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "TR661 .W38 2001".
- catalog title "The great wide open : panoramic photographs of the American West / Jennifer A. Watts and Claudia Bohn-Spector.".
- catalog type "text".