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

by Weston Naef

This study examines the philosophical and scientific context of nineteenth-century American Western landscape photography following the advent of wet-collodion plates. It includes 314 black-and-white photographs documenting the region's terrain.

Accession 31928 ISBN 0870991280 Publisher Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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