Framing the West
Subtitle: the survey photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
By: Toby Jurovics ... [et al.].
Contributors: Jurovics, Toby.; O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882.; Smithsonian American Art Museum.; Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.
Publisher: Library of Congress; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780300158915
Subjects: O'Sullivan, Timothy H., -- 1840-1882 -- Travel -- West (U.S.) -- Exhibitions; King, Clarence, -- 1842-1901 -- Travel -- West (U.S.) -- Exhibitions; Landscape photography -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Photography in geography -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Geological surveys -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions; Pictorial works
Description: The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than 30 years, this book offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon.
Notes: "This publication accompanies the exhibition Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan, held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., from February 12 to May 9, 2010."

The prints included in this work are reproduced from those housed in the Library of Congress' Prints and Photograph Division.

Includes bibliographical references and index.