Photography and the Old West - Hardcover

Current, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810914123 ISBN 13: 9780810914124

Publisher: H. N. Abrams, 1978

Synopsis

This work is an explanation of the role of the nineteenth-century photographer as a conscious historian of the West - a recorder of events, people, and places as surely as they were the diary-keepers, journalists, and writers. Like them, he exercised choice in what he recorded; unlike them, he documented aspects of reality that we can know in no other way. Photographers as documenters are too often casually, even carelessly, regarded. Photography And The Old West is intended to convey as clearly as possible how people learned to use a camera and became camera-wise in an individual way; how tools and materials affected photographic seeing; and what a few of the many photographers hoped to express. This work is not a comprehensive survey but rather a selective look at some of the imagery of the West that a few conscious photographers produced.

About this edition

• Publisher: H. N. Abrams
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0810914123
• ISBN 13: 9780810914124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272