Product Description: The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the best and brightest of his generation...read more

Product Description: Near the homes of photographers John Willis and Tom Young is a paper mill that sits in the otherwise pristine and picturesque climes of western Massachusetts. For Willis and Young, this site is one of both aesthetic and philosophical contradictions: despite its verdant locale, the mill—with its ominous smoke stacks and countless bales of discarded paper—brings to mind the dreariness of industrialization and the impermanence of life itself...read more

Product Description: This prize-winning book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West-a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century. "Excellent . . . rewarding . . . a provocative look at the limits of photography as recorder of history-and its role in perpetuating myth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Completely revised edition, featuring Richard Rudisill's Directories of Photographers, an annotated international bibliography, and six new essays on photography research. Included are David Haynes' "how to" essay expanded to include new resources provided by the advent of the computer and the World Wide Web); Linda Ries' sequel to her fascinating story of photographer Charles Lochman (the original essay is included in the appendix); Jeremy Rowe's report on legal issues pertaining to reproducing photographs; Drew Johnson's case study on utilizing a regional collection of photographs at the Oakland museum; Steve Knoblock's history of his innovative photo history web site; and Peter Palmquist's essay on his research agency, "Women in Photography International Archive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From well-known luminaries of the medium such as Arbus, Goldin, Lange, Cunningham, Cindy Sherman, and Annie Leibovitz, to far less-known figures, this book celebrates the role women have had in shaping photography's vision. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: When we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are known the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer's Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting cowboy...read more

Product Description: The catalogue for an unprecedented exhibition opening in June 1996 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Perpetual Mirage is the first full-scale illustrated history of the desert West and the first in-depth study of one of the most distinctive American publishing traditions--the photographic book...read more

Product Description: Six essays by noted scholars examine the varied ways in which photographs reflected and influenced 19th-century American life. Contributors include: Alan Trachtenberg, Barbara McCandless, Keith F. Davis, Peter B. Hales, Sarah Greenough, and the editor...read more

Presents a visual record of the Mexican War

Provides a personal account of life in a small Navaho community by a field nurse in Arizona

A selection of Laura Gilpin's photographs of the American Southwest and other subjects is accompanied by a discussion of her artistic career

Product Description: Artists are grouped sequentially as they gave us our first glimpse of America beyond its Eastern corridor as they accompanied the scientists and mapmakers on their great adventure: William Clark, Samuel Seymour and Titian Ramsay Peale, George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred jacor Miller, and James John Audubon...read more