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Perpetual Mirage
Photographic Narratives of the Desert West
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996, 240 pages
Oversized Softcover in good+ condition, no dust jacket
Text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight, cover is in good+ condition, no dings rips or tears.
Chapters are:
Surveying an Unfamiliar Land, 1840-1880, Discovering a Human Past-Inventing a Scenic West, 1880-1930, Modernist Visions and Traditional Voices 1930-1960, Transformations and Reassessment, 1960-1966.
Among the contents are subtopics such as:
Prints vs. Photographs; 1840-1860,Photography, Railroads, Natural Resources in the Arid West, Mesa Verde, Landscapes of Edward Curtis, Taos Pueblo. There is also biographical and bibliographical entry for each photographer who work is reproduced. Heavily illustrated including several full-page plates.
This is a collection of the major works on the history
of photography in the American West.
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