William Henry Jackson and the transformation of the American landscape / Peter B. Hales

Includes bibliography and index

Includes bibliography and index

Acclaimed in the nineteenth century as "the world̕s 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 America̕s landscape from myth to scenery and Jackson̕s 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