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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 286
Utgivningsdatum: 2007-06-01
Upplaga: illustrated ed
Förlag: University of California Press
Illustrationer: 89 b-w photographs
Dimensioner: 230 x 185 x 26 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9780520249356

Archive Style

Name: Archive Style
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Author: Robin Kelsey
ISBN: 9780520249356

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

av Robin Kelsey

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007-06-01

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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, graphic pictorial style that imitated the informational clarity of diagrams and maps. As this book demonstrates, these pictures became sites of struggle as well as innovation when three brilliant survey artists and photographers subtly resisted the programs they were hired to serve. Discovering a politics of style behind the modernist look of survey pictures, Kelsey offers a fresh interpretation of canonical western expedition photographs by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and introduces two exceptional but largely forgotten sets of pictures: views of the U.S.-Mexico boundary from the 1850s by Arthur Schott and photographs of the Charleston earthquake of 1886 by C. C. Jones.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION RIDDLES AND PREMISES ONE ARTHUR SCHOTT: MARKING THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY TWO TIMOTHY H. O'SULLIVAN: SURVEYS OF THE GREAT BASIN THREE C. C. JONES: THE USGS INVESTIGATION OF THE CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE CONCLUSION ARCHIVE STYLE NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX