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A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold
rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera The California
gold rush was the first major event in American history to be
documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers
a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places,
and culture of that historical episode as seen through
daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of the era. After gold was discovered
at Sutter's Mill in 1848, thousands made the journey to California,
including daguerreotypists who established studios in cities and
towns and ventured into the gold fields in specially outfitted
photographic wagons. Their images, including portraits, views of
cities and gold towns, and miners at work in the field, provide an
extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of mining culture and
technology, the variety of nationalities and races involved in the
mining industry, and the growth of cities such as San Francisco and
Sacramento. Including numerous images published here for the first
time, this book provides an extraordinary glimpse into the
transformation of the American West. Distributed for The Hall
Family Foundation in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of
Art Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City (September 6, 2019-January 26, 2020) Peabody Essex Museum,
Salem (April 4, 2020-July 12, 2020) Yale University Art Gallery
(August 28-November 29, 2020)
This stunning volume represents a major photo-historical discovery:
it is the first book on Homer Page (1918-1985), a brilliant but
overlooked photographer active in the late 1940s and 50s. It
focuses on his previously unpublished photographs of New York taken
while a Guggenheim Fellow from 1949 to 1950. First recognized by
Ansel Adams in 1944, California-born Page exhibited in a major show
of young artists at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1946.
Four years later, he was invited to participate in MoMA's seminal
photography symposium, alongside 10 other prominent photographers,
including Walker Evans, Irving Penn, and Aaron Siskind. In
photographs that echo those of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and
Robert Frank, Page uniquely synthesized documentary and artistic
concerns. His work as a Guggenheim Fellow--which depicts
pedestrians in motion, friends and family members conversing,
commuters, children playing, political rallies and protests, and
isolated figures resting and watching--offers a fascinating look at
New York during the late 1940s and represents the culmination of
Page's most important work. The Photographs of Homer Page features
a plate section of these compelling and often poignant images
together with texts by the artist, a bibliography, and an essay by
noted scholar Keith F. Davis examining Page's life and career--
including his connections with Lange, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall,
and Edouard Steichen. Distributed for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of
Art Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (February
14-June 7, 2009)
A glimpse into the development of the American West through
startling photographs of the frontier landscape and the rich
culture of American Indian tribes Best known for his Civil War
photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two
extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the
American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway
and Scenes in the Indian County. In 1867, after joining the survey
team for what became the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Gardner
photographed the path of the proposed extension, emphasizing the
ease of future railroad construction and economic development,
while including studies of American Indians and settlements along
the way. The following year, Gardner recorded peace talks with
Indian tribes at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Distinctly sympathetic to
the plight of the American Indian, Gardner made candid
documentation of individual chiefs, their encampments and daily
life, burial trees, and the peace proceedings themselves. With a
full catalogue raisonne of these two rare series, Alexander Gardner
offers a complete visual index of these remarkable photographs,
made at a critical moment in the history of the American West.
Distributed for the Hall Family Foundation and the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
(07/25/14-01/11/15)
Best known for his modernist paintings and prints, the
multitalented artist Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) maintained a deep
and intensive interest in photography throughout his career, using
the camera as a tool of both documentary and artistic expression.
This exquisitely produced publication provides a fresh,
comprehensive look at Crawford's photographs from 1938 through the
mid-1970s, including both well-known works and previously
unpublished images. Some of his photographic images served as the
basis for paintings and prints, but many more were made for their
own sake as photographs, capturing a wide variety of subjects, from
pristine industrial forms to the vibrant street life and musical
culture of New Orleans. This volume locates Crawford's photographic
production in the context of his overall artistic career and within
the creative currents of his time, enhancing our understanding of
Crawford as an artist and serving as the best and most up-to-date
study of his photographs. Distributed for The Hall Family
Foundation in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
(10/26/18-04/07/19)
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