Alexander Gardner
The Western Photographs, 1867-1868
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Publication
2014 - Yale University Press
Language
English
Word Count
45,000 words, Guess
Page Count
180 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780300208245
- ISBN-100300208243
- Library of Congress Control Number2014933741
- OCLC Control Number881612576
- Better World Books9780300208245
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29221814M
Classifications
- LCCTR652
- LCCTR681.I58 A87x 2014
Description
Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian County. In 1867, after joining the survey team for what became the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Gardner photographed the path of the proposed extension, emphasizing the ease of future railroad construction and economic development, while including studies of American Indians and settlements along the way. The following year, Gardner recorded peace talks with Indian tribes at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Distinctly sympathetic to the plight of the American Indian, Gardner made candid documentation of individual chiefs, their encampments and daily life, burial trees, and the peace proceedings themselves. With a full catalogue raisonné of these two rare series, this volume offers a complete visual index of these remarkable photographs, made at a critical moment in the history of the American West.
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