East of the Mississippi : nineteenth-century American landscape photography / Diane Waggoner with Russell Lord and Jennifer Raab.

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 worki...

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Main Authors: Waggoner, Diane (Author), Lord, Russell (Author), Raab, Jennifer (Author)
Other title:Nineteenth-century American landscape photography.
David H. Tippit Collection.
Format: Book
Language:English
Local Note:Rare Books Collection copy David H. Tippit Collection.
Published: Washington, DC : New Haven : National Gallery of Art ; Yale University Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Landscape across media / Jennifer Raab
  • Photographing the Eastern landscape, 1839-1900 / Diane Waggoner
  • Introduction
  • The daguerreotype comes to America
  • Paper processes and the view
  • Landscpe aesthetics
  • The Cival War
  • Industry and the railroads
  • Tourism, preservation, and artistry
  • The intersted landscape / Russell Lord.