Print the Legend
Subtitle: Photography and the American West
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780300095227
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Photography & Photographs; c 1800 to c 1900; Photography; U.S. Local History - Western United States; History: American; Western & Pacific Coast states; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Photography / History; General; United States - State & Local - General; History; West (U.S.)
First sentence: This is a story about photography and the American West, a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century.
Description: "Resurrecting scores of little-known images of the nineteenth-century American West, Print the Legend offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, missing photographs, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book tells the story of how Americans first came to understand western photographs and, consequently, to envision their expanding nation."--Jacket.