Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493064746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into the western lands of nineteenth-century America as a photographer. Jackson’s life spanned multiple incarnations of the American West. In a sense, he played a singular role in revealing the West to eastern Americans. While others opened the frontier with the axe and the rifle, Jackson did so with his collection of cameras. He dispelled the geological myths through a lens no one could deny or match. His wet plate collodion prints not only helped to reframe the nation’s image of the West, but they also enticed businessmen, investors, scientists, and even tourists to venture into the western regions of the United States. Prior to Jackson’s widely circulated photographs, the American West was little understood and unmapped—mysterious lands that required a camera and a cameraman to reveal their secrets and, ultimately, provide the first photographic record of such exotic destinations as Yellowstone, Mesa Verde, and the Rocky Mountains. Jackson’s story was long and his life full, as he lived to the enviable age of 99. This biography presents the good, bad, and ugly of Jackson’s life, both personal and professional, through the use primary source materials, including Jackson’s autobiographies, letters, and government reports on the Hayden Surveys.
William Henry Jackson's Lens
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493064746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into the western lands of nineteenth-century America as a photographer. Jackson’s life spanned multiple incarnations of the American West. In a sense, he played a singular role in revealing the West to eastern Americans. While others opened the frontier with the axe and the rifle, Jackson did so with his collection of cameras. He dispelled the geological myths through a lens no one could deny or match. His wet plate collodion prints not only helped to reframe the nation’s image of the West, but they also enticed businessmen, investors, scientists, and even tourists to venture into the western regions of the United States. Prior to Jackson’s widely circulated photographs, the American West was little understood and unmapped—mysterious lands that required a camera and a cameraman to reveal their secrets and, ultimately, provide the first photographic record of such exotic destinations as Yellowstone, Mesa Verde, and the Rocky Mountains. Jackson’s story was long and his life full, as he lived to the enviable age of 99. This biography presents the good, bad, and ugly of Jackson’s life, both personal and professional, through the use primary source materials, including Jackson’s autobiographies, letters, and government reports on the Hayden Surveys.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493064746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into the western lands of nineteenth-century America as a photographer. Jackson’s life spanned multiple incarnations of the American West. In a sense, he played a singular role in revealing the West to eastern Americans. While others opened the frontier with the axe and the rifle, Jackson did so with his collection of cameras. He dispelled the geological myths through a lens no one could deny or match. His wet plate collodion prints not only helped to reframe the nation’s image of the West, but they also enticed businessmen, investors, scientists, and even tourists to venture into the western regions of the United States. Prior to Jackson’s widely circulated photographs, the American West was little understood and unmapped—mysterious lands that required a camera and a cameraman to reveal their secrets and, ultimately, provide the first photographic record of such exotic destinations as Yellowstone, Mesa Verde, and the Rocky Mountains. Jackson’s story was long and his life full, as he lived to the enviable age of 99. This biography presents the good, bad, and ugly of Jackson’s life, both personal and professional, through the use primary source materials, including Jackson’s autobiographies, letters, and government reports on the Hayden Surveys.
Lens on the West
Author: Helen Markley Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Yellowstone National Park
Author: Bradly J. Boner
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607324482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An extended visual essay presenting orignal images from William Henry Jackson's 1871 Hayden Survey paired with breathtaking color rephotographs of each view from photojournalist Bradly J. Boner.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607324482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An extended visual essay presenting orignal images from William Henry Jackson's 1871 Hayden Survey paired with breathtaking color rephotographs of each view from photojournalist Bradly J. Boner.
Time Exposure
Author: William Henry Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
William Henry Jackson
Author:
Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This bibliography is a catalog of works relating to William Henry Jackson.
Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This bibliography is a catalog of works relating to William Henry Jackson.
William H. Jackson
Author: Beaumont Newhall
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780883600399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780883600399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942
William Henry Jackson
Author:
Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing
ISBN: 9781887694025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing
ISBN: 9781887694025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
William Henry Jackson's "The Pioneer Photographer"
Author: William Henry Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A delightfully accessible trail-guide approach to the traditional uses of wild plants in the Pueblo world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A delightfully accessible trail-guide approach to the traditional uses of wild plants in the Pueblo world.
Eye for History: The Paintings of William Henry Jackson, From the Collection at the Oregon Trail Museum
Author: Dean Knudsen
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description