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The American Space: Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography
by Wolf, Daniel [Edt.]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 081955071X
- ISBN 13
- 9780819550712
- Seller
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About This Item
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xii, 122 pp, list of 110 plates, Introduction by Robert Adams, NATURE: Space 6-18; Rocks 19-30; Trees 31-40; Waterfalls 41-48; Light 49-55. MAN AND NATURE: Indians 56-61; Man and Space 62-83; Trains 84-93; Growth 94-110; notes on the photographers, photographic processes, suggested reading. Edited and with notes by Daniel Wolf. First Edition, 1983. "These photographs were taken by some 22 amateur and professional photographers between the years 1842 and 1906. Most are of the West -- Yosemite and Yellowstone, the Colorado and Columbia rivers, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, and California -- but included are photographs of Brooklyn and Rocheter, New York and New Hampshire. The majority of the prints are albumen; but this collections includes daguerrotypes, platinum prints, platinogypes, and bromide prints. Among the artists are Timothy O'Sullivan, William Henry Jackson, Carleton Watkins, H. H. BennettEadweard Muybridge." Not Price Clipped. Slightly bowed front board, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Cream cloth..
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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002727
- Title
- The American Space: Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography
- Author
- Wolf, Daniel [Edt.]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 081955071X
- ISBN 13
- 9780819550712
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Place of Publication
- Middletown, CT
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- PHOTOGRAPHY NATURE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA 1842-1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHOTOGRAPHY;
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