William Henry Jackson's Lens: How Yellowstone's Famous Photographer Captured the American West McNeese Tim
William Henry Jackson's Lens: How Yellowstone's Famous Photographer Captured the American West McNeese Tim William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. His larger claim to fame…
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William Henry Jackson's Lens: How Yellowstone's Famous Photographer Captured the American West McNeese Tim
William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into the western lands of nineteenth-century America as a photographer. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West.
In a sense, he played a singular role in revealing the West to eastern Americans. Jackson's life spanned multiple incarnations of the American West. While others opened the frontier with the axe and the rifle, Jackson did so with his collection of cameras.
He dispelled the geological myths through a lens no one could deny or match. His wet plate collodion prints not only helped to reframe the nation's image of the West, but they also enticed businessmen, investors, scientists, and even tourists to venture into the western regions of the United States. Prior to Jackson's widely circulated photographs, the American West was
Creating the American West
Art of the American West
Ranching and the American West
How the West Was Won