TY  - GEN
T1  - Archive style : photographs & illustrations for U.S. surveys, 1850-1890
A1  - Kelsey, Robin, 1961-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn816496780
AB  - This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American Indians, geologic features, botanical specimens, and specialists at work in the field. Some of these pictures have long been celebrated for their anticipation of a modernist aesthetic, but Robin Kelsey, in this abundantly illustrated volume, traces their modernistic qualities to archival ingenuity. Th.
NO  - "Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation"--Preliminary page.
NO  - "Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint"--Preliminary page.
CN  - TA592.6.U6 K45 2007
SN  - 0520933281
SN  - 9780520933286
SN  - 0520420845
SN  - 9780520420847
SN  - 9780520249356
SN  - 0520249356
KW  - Photographic surveying : History : 19th century.
KW  - Geological surveys : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Phototopographie : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Surveying.
KW  - Geological surveys
KW  - Photographic surveying
KW  - United States
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
ER  -