Colorado, 1870-2000
by William Henry Jackson
from Westcliffe Publishers
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.
Colorado 1870-2000 II
by John Fielder
from Westcliffe Publishers
Time exposure: The autobiography of William Henry Jackson ; with an introduction by Ferenc M. Szasz
by William Henry Jackson
from University of New Mexico Press
William Henry Jackson: An Intimate Portrait : The Elwood P. Bonney Journal
from Colorado Historical Society
William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape
by Peter Bacon Hales
from Temple Univ Pr
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.
The Birth of a Century: Early Color Photographs of America
by Jim Hughes
from St Martins Pr
William Henry Jackson's "The Pioneer Photographer"
from Museum of New Mexico Press
William Henry Jackson: An Annotated Bibliography {1862 to 1995}
from Carl Mautz Publishing
The creative and commercial output of William Henry Jackson was staggering. He lived 99 years, and left thousands of paintings, photographs, sketches, prints, illustrations, articles and books in his wake. From photographing the post-Civil War expansion into the Western U.S. to publishing colorful art prints of people and scenes from around the world, Jackson was always prominent. His influence was felt by many and remains pervasive to this day, as he continues to be one of the most studied and written about of America's 19th century photographers.This bibliography has been an ongoing interest of Dr. Harrell's for many years and presents the scholarly and collecting world with an invaluable resource for understanding Jackson, the American West and the history of photography as reflected in Jackson's continual growth through changing technology and times.
William Henry Jackson (Masters of Photography)
Among the Rockies: Pictures of magnificent scenes, in the Rocky Mountains : the master-works of the world's greatest photographic artist
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