Rephotographic Survey Project Following Footsteps of the First Photographers The idea of re-photographing the already photographed was not exactly a new one in the 1970s as evidenced by the re-photographing of Canyon de Chelly by Ansel Adams who stood in the shoes of...
New Topographics The New West, Part Two The New Topographics movement in America was an attempt to be “objective” about its survey of the West in post-war America. Writing in relation to The New West, the 1974 book of photographs of the developing of the...
AMERICAN STORIES: PAINTINGS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. 1765 – 1915 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City October 12, 2009 – January 24, 2010 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles February 28, 2010 – May 23, 2010 American Stories is a beautiful...
Alexander Gardner: The Last of the West Once it was customary, in less sensitive times, to refer proudly to “winning the West,” a triumphalist trumpeting of conquest and colonialism in which “we,” the authors of history, white people, pushed...
PHOTOGRAPHING THE AMERICAN WEST PART ONE Carleton Watkins in Yosemite In a virtually unreadable book on the discovery of the California territory called “Yosemite,” the first owner of a tourist establishment in what became a national park, James M....
