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Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890
Robin Kelsey
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Description for Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890
Hardback. Aims to reveal how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. This book offers an interpretation of canonical western expedition photographs by Timothy H O'Sullivan and introduces views of the US-Mexico boundary from the 1850s, and photographs of the Charleston earthquake of 1886. Num Pages: 286 pages, 89 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJCR; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
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, graphic pictorial ... Read more
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, graphic pictorial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520249356
SKU
V9780520249356
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About Robin Kelsey
Robin Kelsey is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.
Reviews for Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890
"A book of startlingly consistent quality."
Alexander Nemerov CAA Reviews "Robert Kelsey ... aims in Archive Style to analyze 'pictures, style, and power outside the usual domain of art."
Jeffrey Mifflin Archival Issues
Alexander Nemerov CAA Reviews "Robert Kelsey ... aims in Archive Style to analyze 'pictures, style, and power outside the usual domain of art."
Jeffrey Mifflin Archival Issues