William Henry Jackson

William Henry Jackson
Author: Douglas Waitley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780878423828

William Henry Jackson's stunning photographs of the Colorado Rockies, Mesa Verde, the Tetons, Yosemite, and Yellowstone made a mark not only on the history of photography but also on the history of the nation. A thorough and well-researched yet emphatically readable biography. William Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier features more than 100 photographs illustrating Jackson's remarkable legacy.

William Henry Jackson

William Henry Jackson
Author:
Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781887694025

This bibliography is a catalog of works relating to William Henry Jackson.

The Diaries of William Henry Jackson Frontier Photographer

The Diaries of William Henry Jackson Frontier Photographer
Author: William Henry Jackson
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258197636

To California And Return, 1866-1867; And With The Hayden Surveys To The Central Rockies, 1873, And To The Utes And Cliff Dwellings, 1874.

William Henry Jackson's Lens

William Henry Jackson's Lens
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1493064746

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.

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
Author: John Hannavy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1629
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1135873275

The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.

Witnesses to a Vanishing America

Witnesses to a Vanishing America
Author: Lee Clark Mitchell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1400856159

Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America's westward mission. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, Lee Clark Mitchell portrays the growing apprehensions Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Author: Joan M. Marter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 3140
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0195335791

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

First Impressions

First Impressions
Author: David J. Weber
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300215045

This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System—including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde—to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors’ skillful evocation of the region’s sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers.