Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West

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Meaningful Places Ansel Adams, The North Palisade, Kings River Sierra, about 1932. Ansel Adams Archive, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Meaningful Places LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN WEST Rachel McLean Sailor UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS • ALBUQUERQUE © 2014 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Published 2014 Printed in the United States of America 19 18 17 16 15 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sailor, Rachel McLean, 1970– author. Meaningful places : landscape photographers in the nineteenth-century American West / Rachel McLean Sailor. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8263-5422-8 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-8263-5423-5 (electronic) 1. Landscape photography—West (U.S.)—History—19th century. 2. Photographers—West (U.S.)—History—19th century. I. Title. TR660.S26 2014 770.92—dc23 2013047220 Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Fund of the College Art Association. BOOK DESIGN: Catherine Leonardo Composed in 10.25/13.5 Minion Pro Regular Display type is Scotch Roman MT Std Regular To Noah, Dinah, and Aram Miles and to Robert and Mary Sailor The eye sees not beyond the mind, and will convey to the latter no image or idea which the understanding and the heart are not already prepared to receive. —Edward L. Wilson, “Art Writings for Photographers,” Philadelphia Photographer, 1871 ...