Views On The Mississippi: The Photographs Of Henry Peter Bosse - Hardcover

Neuzil, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816636478 ISBN 13: 9780816636471

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2001

Synopsis

As mapmaker and photographer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903) took more than three hundred photographs of the Upper Mississippi River from 1883 to 1893, a time of unprecedented environmental and social change. Now recognized as the leading photographer of his time of the Mississippi, his work was almost unknown until five separate volumes of his photographs were discovered during the past few years. Since then, Bosse's work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian and other national museums and sold by leading auction houses to private collectors around the world.

Views on the Mississippi brings together for the first time almost one hundred of Bosse's most stunning images. These photographs-tracing the river from Minneapolis to St. Louis-capture the Mississippi as it was being transformed from an untamed natural wonder to a modern commercial highway. Presenting the wagon and railroad bridges, the towns and villages along the banks, and the steamboats that served them, Bosse's images depict the river at the fulcrum between the nostalgic era recorded by Mark Twain and the coming century of industrial development and environmental change, including the alterations wrought by the navigation projects of the Army Corps.

Bosse used the cyanotype process, which produced large-format photographs in crisp, vivid blue tones. This volume offers high quality reproduction with new captions providing the location and significance of each image, as well as historical context. Also included here is a detailed reproduction of Bosse's rare landmark map of the river, first published in 1887-88, giving the reader with a fascinating guide to the historic Upper Mississippi.

Views on the Mississippi is certain to delight and surprise those interested in nineteenth-century America, life on the Mississippi River, the environment, and fine photography everywhere.

Mark Neuzil is associate professor of journalism and mass communication and environmental studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903), a German immigrant and grandson of a great Prussian war hero, worked as a mapmaker and photographer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1874 until his death.

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About the Author

Mark Neuzil is a professor in the department of communication and journalism at the University of St. Thomas and the coauthor of "Mass Media and Environmental Conflict," "A Spiritual Field Guide," "Views on the Mississippi," and "Writing Across the" "Media," He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Russell E. Train is the chairman emeritus of World Wildlife Fund, the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the author of "Politics, Pollution, and Pandas," He lives in Washington, D.C.
Foresta is senior curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816636478
• ISBN 13: 9780816636471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272