Framing the West : the survey photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan / Toby Jurovics ... [et al.] ; foreword by Page Stegner. - New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2010. - 272 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.

Published to accompany the exhibition Framing the West held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., from Feb. 12 to May 9, 2010.

Includes bibliography (p. 241-243) and index.

The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than 30 years, this book offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon. There is a chronology of O'Sullivan's life. Andrew Russell's photographs for geological survey are also presented and discussed.

9780300158915 (hbk.) : £40.00 0300158912 (hbk.) : £40.00


O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882 --Travel--West (U.S.)--Exhibitions.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901 --Travel--West (U.S.)--Exhibitions.


Landscape photography--History--West (U.S.)--19th century--Exhibitions.
Photography in geography--History--19th century--Exhibitions.
Geological surveys--History--West (U.S.)--19th century
Landscape photography.


West (U.S.)
Photography.--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

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