East of the Mississippi
Subtitle: nineteenth-century American landscape photography
By: Diane Waggoner with Russell Lord and Jennifer Raab
Contributors: National Gallery of Art (U.S.); New Orleans Museum of Art; Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780300224016
Subjects: Landscape photography; Exhibitions; Pictorial works; History
Other titles: Nineteenth-century American landscape photography
Description: This important reconsideration of landscape photography in nineteenth-century America explores crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes. Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of nineteenth-century American landscape photography, many photographers were working in the eastern half of the United States during that period. Their pictures, with the exception of Civil War images, have received relatively scant attention. Redressing this imbalance is East of the Mississippi, the first book to focus exclusively on the arresting eastern photographs that helped shape America's national identity. Celebrating natural wonders such as Niagara Falls and the White Mountains as well as capturing a cultural landscape fundamentally altered by industrialization, these works also documented the impact of war, promoted tourism, and played a role in an emerging environmentalism. Showcasing some 180 photographs from 1839 to 1900 in a rich variety of media and formats--from daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, tintypes, cyanotypes, and albumen prints to stereo cards and photograph albums--this volume traces the evolution of eastern landscape photography and introduces the artists who explored this subject. Also considered are the dynamic ties with other media--for instance, between painters and photographers such as the Bierstadt and Moran brothers--and the distinctive development of landscape photography in America.--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with the New Orleans Museum of Art"--Colophon.

"Produced by the Publishing Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Published in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Landscape across media / Jennifer Raab; title: Photographing the Eastern Landscape, 1839-1900 / Diane Waggoner.; title: Introduction, Plates 1-3; title: The Daguerreotype comes to America, Plates 4-31; title: Paper processes and the view, Plates 32-64; title: Landscape aesthetics, Plates 65-94; title: The Civil War, Plates 95-115; title: Industry and the railroads, Plates 116-151; title: Tourism, preservation, and artistry, Plates 152-176.; title: The interested landscape / Russell Lord.