Author: Blair, Bob
Title: William Henry Jackson's "the Pioneer Photographer
Description: Santa Fe, NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and stamped title on cover. Matte pictorial jacket and green endpapers. 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm. Blair has painstakingly reconstructed the art, views and vision of a man who devoted his life to preserving the legacy of the American West-and it is a fascinating story.-Dean Knudsen, Historian, Scotts Bluff National Monument, National Park Service 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 U.S. 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. - Publisher. VG. Jacket has light wear along top edge. Board and jacket corners are bumped. Binding tight and square.

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