Era of exploration
Subtitle: the rise of landscape photography in the American West, 1860-1885
By: Weston J. Naef, in collaboration with James N. Wood ; with an essay by Therese Thau Heyman.
Contributors: Wood, James N., joint author.
Publisher: Albright-Knox Art Gallery; distributed by New York Graphic Society
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Buffalo; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Landscape photography -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Description: A comprehensive history of American landscape photograph in the West after the invention of wet-colliodion plates presents a view of the philosophical, esthetic and scientific climate that produced a fascination with the West's landscapes and a sophisticated means of recording it. Includes 314 black-and-white photographs.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 256-258.
Includes index.