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Photography and the Old West

Karen CurrentMargaret L. KaplanEllen Shultz

出版	H. N. Abrams, 1978
主題	History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / GeneralPhotography / History
ISBN	08109141239780810914124
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AaMQAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This work is an explanation of the role of the nineteenth-century photographer as a conscious historian of the West - a recorder of events, people, and places as surely as they were the diary-keepers, journalists, and writers. Like them, he exercised choice in what he recorded; unlike them, he documented aspects of reality that we can know in no other way. Photographers as documenters are too often casually, even carelessly, regarded. Photography And The Old West is intended to convey as clearly as possible how people learned to use a camera and became camera-wise in an individual way; how tools and materials affected photographic seeing; and what a few of the many photographers hoped to express. This work is not a comprehensive survey but rather a selective look at some of the imagery of the West that a few conscious photographers produced.