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Colorado
1870-2000 II
by John Fielder, William Henry Jackson, Gillian Klucas
Hardcover from John Fielder Publishing
ISBN: 1565795660
This is volume II of the Jackson/Fielder project with 110 new comparison
photo pair. Volumes I and II together represent the entire project in which
the historic images of early west photographer William Henry Jackson capture
a Colorado landscape both pristine and already dramatically affected by
the onslaught on western civilization. Standing exactly where Jackson stood,
and pointing his own camera in precisely the same direction, John Fielder
has rephotographed Jackson's Colorado images to capture the often startling
change that has occurred over the last century. The result is both breathtaking
and stark, hopeful and disquieting. John Fielder describes the profound
experience of traveling the state and seeing the landscape from Jackson's
perspective, and reflects upon changes of the last 130 years. |
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William
Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape
by Peter Bacon Hales, William Henry Jackson
Hardcover from Temple Univ Pr
ISBN: 0877224781
Acclaimed in the nineteenth century as "the world's most famous landscape
photographer," William Henry Jackson and his camera presided over the mapping,
bounding, and settling of the American West and the larger American landscape.
In this lavishly illustrated study, Peter B. Hales investigates the conversion
of America's landscape from myth to scenery and Jackson's effect on this
cultural transformation.
In this book Peter B. Hales examines the ways Americans viewed their
land, and the ways they acted on their beliefs. A study of how an individual
affects and was affected by his culture, this is an engrossing story of
the contradictions of American culture, the myths that encompass it and
give it meaning, and their transformation over a century.
William Henry Jackson himself is rich material for an authoritative
study. Not simply a chronicler, he immersed himself and his photographs
in the processes of change that swept America from the 1840s until the
1940s. Official photographer to the Hayden Survey of the American West,
early explorer of Yellowstone, and celebrant of the Colorado Rockies, Jackson
was instrumental in the mass-marketing of landscape photography at the
beginning of the twentieth century. Retired in the 1920s, he was rediscovered
by the American Scene enthusiasts of the thirties, and found another career
as painter of nostalgic images of America's Golden Age of frontier freedom.
Illustrated with nearly two hundred reproductions of Jackson's photographs,
this work makes major contributions to our understanding of photography,
of the American land, and of American culture in its broadest, richest
sense. |
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Colorado,
1870-2000
by William Henry Jackson, John Fielder, Ed Marston
Hardcover from Westcliff Pub Inc
ISBN: 1565793471
The images of early west photographer William Henry Jackson capture
a Colorado landscape both pristine and already dramatically affected by
the onslaught on western civilization. Standing exactly where Jackson stood,
and pointing his own camera in precisely the same direction, John Fielder
has rephotographed Jackson's Colorado images to capture the often startling
change that has occurred over the last century. The result is both breathtaking
and stark, hopeful and disquieting. Jackson's and Fielder's photography
is accompanied by thoughtful and provocative essays by respected experts
in the environmental field: Roderick Nash, America's foremost wilderness
historian and author of Wilderness and the American Mind; Ed Marston, journalist
and publisher of High Country News; and Eric Paddock, Curator of Photography
at the Colorado Historical Society. John Fielder describes the profound
experience of traveling the state and seeing the landscape from Jackson's
perspective, and reflects upon changes of the last 130 years.
The contrast between Jackson's and Fielder's photographs not only illuminates
Colorado's past but will help us determine the course of land management
as we move into the next century. Accompanied by an educational program
that includes lectures, a traveling exhibit, newspaper serialization, and
television series, this book is aimed at encouraging people to appreciate
and reflect on nature, history, and photography as we move into the next
century. Colorado: 1870-2000 stands not only as an important document of
westward exploration, expansion, and urbanization, but helps define our
past and future environmental values. |
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William
Henry Jackson's "The Pioneer Photographer"
by William Henry Jackson
Hardcover from Museum of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0890134359
Of the many published accounts to come out of William Henry Jackson's
long career, The Pioneer Photographer, first published in 1929, is widely
accepted as Jackson's most trusted autobiography of his early pioneering
days and his first eight years (1870-1878) as the official photographer
for the US Geological Survey. This reconstruction of Jackson's classic
work, long out of print, presents one hundred sixty photographs and early
drawings, paintings and lithographs by America's best-known landscape photographer,
drawing on Jackson's diaries, other published accounts, and importantly
his annotations of The Pioneer Photographer to create a complete and multidimensional
view of the unfolding nineteenth-century American West. Editor Bob Blair
has significantly expanded Jackson's original autobiography, reprinted
here in full with the author's annotations, with seventy additional photographs,
drawings, and paintings, and extensive excerpts from Jackson's writings,
much of the new material drawn from archives and historical collections
and never before published. |
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William
Henry Jackson: An Intimate Portrait : The Elwood P. Bonney Journal
by Lloyd W. Gundy
Paperback from Colorado Historical Society
ISBN: 0870816411
During the final decade of his century-long life, pioneer photographer
William Henry Jackson became a living symbol of the Old West. Remarkably
active well into his nineties, Jackson painted scenes of the Oregon Trail
and traded stories with other old-timers who met regularly at the Explorers
Club and the Adventurers' Club in New York City. One of this closest friends
and admirers, a young man named Elwood P Bonney, kept a journal of Jackson's
thoughts, recollections, and accomplishments during those years. Based
on Bonney's journal, "William Henry Jackson: An Intimate Portrait" is an
engaging personal look at a man whose life and work spanned the development
and transformation of the West, from the 1860s to World War II. Edited,
annotated, and with an introduction by Lloyd W Gundy, this first-hand biographical
portrait includes full-colour images of Jackson's paintings of major western
explorations and black-and-white illustrations of the distinguished photographer's
last years. |
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William
Henry Jackson
by Denise Ankele, Daniel Ankele
Kindle Edition from Ankele Publishing, LLC
Media Published: 2011-
William Henry Jackson
Born: April 4, 1843 in Keeseville, NY.
Died: June 30,1942 in New York City, NY at the age of 99.
Interesting Facts:
Was a gifted painter and photographer.
He was in the 12th Vermont Infantry of the Union Army and fought in
the American Civil War for nine months. He was at the Battle of Gettysburg
as a guard of the supply train.
Joined the first Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. This expedition
led to the creation of Yellowstone as a National Park with the images he
and Thomas Moran created.
Mount Jackson, in Yellowstone National Park, is named in honor of Jackson.
Recognized as one of the last surviving Civil War veterans, and was
buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Greatest Works:
Mount of the Holy Cross, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and Rocky
Mountains.
William Henry Jackson art book contains 65+ Reproductions of the Old
West including: Yellowstone, Rocky Mountains, Native Americans and Mexico
in Color and Black and White with title and date. |
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The
Birth of a Century: Early Color Photographs of America
by Jim Hughes, William Henry Jackson
Hardcover from St Martins Pr
ISBN: 1850436460
In 1897, the American photographer and adventurer William Henry Jackson,
after having spent three decades documenting the development of the North
American frontier, sold his archive of photographic negatives, to the Detroit
Photographic Company, which he also joined as a partner. The Detroit firm
had recently licensed Photochrom, a secret Swiss process for turning black-and-white
photographs into colour. Completely distinct from today's four colour halftone-screen
reproduction, Photochrom involved the use of a dozen or more asphalt-coated
lithographic stones; it was a labour intensive process whose results could
be superior to original colour prints using modern materials. W.H. Jackson
devoted his next, and last, five years of active photography to Photochrom.
He travelled the length and breadth of North America, often in a specially
equipped railroad car, in search of images that might tell the story of
the end of one epoch and the dawning of another. The chromolithographs
in this volume were selected from a previously undiscovered cache of uncirculated
views. There is an accompanying text by Jim Hughes. |
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