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Era of exploration : the rise of landscape photography in the American West, 1860-1885

by Weston Naef, James N. Wood, Therese Thau Heyman

An exploration of American landscape photography in the West following the invention of wet-collodion plates. It examines the philosophical, aesthetic and scientific contexts of the era, illustrated with 314 black-and-white photographs.

Accession 31768 ISBN 0870991280 Publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art
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