Archive Style Photographs and Illustrations for U. S. Surveys, 1850-1890

Name: Archive Style Photographs and Illustrations for U. S. Surveys, 1850-1890
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ISBN: 9780520249356

ISBN-10: 0520249356

ISBN-13: 9780520249356

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robin Kelsey

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This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American Indians, geologic features, botanical specimens, and specialists at work in the field. Some of these pictures have long been celebrated for their anticipation of a modernist aesthetic, but Robin Kelsey, in this abundantly illustrated volume, traces their modernistic qualities to archival ingenuity. The technical and promotional needs of surveys, Kelsey argues, fostered the emergence of a taut,…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 286
Size: 0.75" wide x 0.95" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Robin Kelsey is Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography at Harvard University.



Acknowledgments


Illustrations


Introduction: Riddles and Premises



Marking the Mexican Boundary




Surveys of the American West




The USGS Investigation of the Charleston Earthquake



Conclusion: Archive Style


Notes


Works Cited


Index