Screen LibraryTimothy H. O'Sullivan : the King Survey photographs /
"Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swath of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer--Timothy O'Sullivan--who produced about 450 finished photogra...
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Hall Family Foundation : in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Kansas City, Mo. : New Haven, Conn. : |
| Publication Dates: | [2011] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swath of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer--Timothy O'Sullivan--who produced about 450 finished photographs in large-format and smaller-format stereographs. O'Sullivan's images convey a distinct individual quality of perception, at once direct and laconic, as well as a perfect union of objective fact and personal interpretation. As such, O'Sullivan remains the most admired, studied, and debated photographer who worked on the great western surveys of the 19th century. This handsome and enlightening book aims to enrich and enlarge our understanding of O'Sullivan's pivotal body of western photographs by emphasizing the idea of context. This ambition encompasses several frames of reference: O'Sullivan's best-known images in relation to his larger body of survey work; the function his photographs served in relation to the survey's overall goals and methodologies; and the King Survey itself as a logical part of a complex and prolonged expeditionary endeavor. The volume also includes an essential catalogue raisonné of O'Sullivan's King Survey work."--Publisher's website. |
| Item Description: | "Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 22, 2011-Jan. 15, 2012 and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Apr. 12-Aug. 26, 2012"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 252 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits ; 29 x 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251). |
| ISBN: |
9780300179842 0300179847 |
| Index Number: | TR660 |
| CLC: | J434(712) |
| Call Number: | J434(712)/D262 |
| Contents: |
Representing the West: from Lewis and Clark to the great surveys of 1867-79 / Making an American landscape: art, nature, and the science of Clarence King / Clarence King's fortieth parallel survey / Timothy H. O'Sullivan: photographer / Plates -- Showing American geography abroad in the Victorian Era: the international reception of the King survey work / Seeing what O'Sullivan saw / Timothy H. O'Sullivan's fortieth parallel survey photographs: a chronology and catalogue raisonné / |