Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

Brunet, François; Griffith, Bronwyn

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BOOKImages of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

François Brunet (Editor), Bronwyn Griffith (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00237

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As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880 presents memorable glass-plate photographs from these federal surveys. The selection includes breathtaking views of such iconic sites as Yosemite, as well as lesser-known ethnographic portraits taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, William H. Jackson, and William Bell, among others. The accompanying essays discuss how the photographs were used to promote white settlement, how their distribution at home and abroad contributed to the aggrandizement of the American West, and how the exploitative ideology underlying the use of photography extended to attitudes toward both American landscapes and American Indians.

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François Brunet (Editor), Bronwyn Griffith (Editor)

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Print publication date January 2007 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780932171542

EISBN 9780300260175

Illustrations 97

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List of illustrations

Group of Officers and Assistants at Rendezvous Camp near Belmont, Nevada
The Territorial Expansion of the United States
Entrance to Grand Canyon
Running a Rapid
View from Monument no. VI, looking towards monument no. V
Old Indian Woman and Papoose
Confederate Dead Gathered for Burial at the Southwestern Edge of the Rose Woods, July 5, 1863
Middle Creek near Blackmore, Montana
Five Views of Yosemite
Eminent American Explorers and Artists
Paiute Group, Cedar, Utah
Wahsatch Mountains, Lone Peak Summit, Utah
Summit of Wahsatch Mountains, Sliding Down, Utah
Navajo Warriors
Navajos
The Start from Camp Mojave, Arizona
Portrait of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
Yellowstone
The Great Surveys
Title page
Flyleaf
Hanging Rock, Echo City, Utah
Tertiary Bluffs, Echo Canyon
Echo Canyon, Utah
North from Berthoud Pass
Cathedral Mountain, Yosemite
Terraced Houses, Zuni, New Mexico
Ku-ra-tu, Kaibab Paiute Woman
Sleeping Mojave Guides, Arizona, recto
Sleeping Mojave Guides, Arizona, verso
Kindling Fire by Friction
Makhpyia-Iuta, "Red Cloud
Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Pyramid and Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Cascade, Nevada Falls, Yosemite
El Capitan, Yosemite
Wawona--28 Feet Diameter, 275 Feet High--Mariposa Grove
View from Glacier Point
Old Faithful, Geyser
Mammoth Hot Springs
Mammoth Hot Springs, on Gardiner's River
Upper Fire-Hole Basin, from Old Faithful
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona
Looking South into the Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Shivwits Crossing
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West (no. 52)
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West (no. 54)
Chocolate Butte near Mouth of the Paria
The Canyon de Chelly from Explorers' Monument
Captains of the Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
Canyon del Muerte, Arizona
Ruins of Cliff Dwellings, Canyon de Chelly
Ancient Ruins in Canyon de Chelly, New Mexico. In a Niche 50 Feet Above Present Canyon Bed
Mary's Veil, Bullion Canyon, Utah
Little Firehole Falls
Mystic Lake, Montana
Mammoth Hot Springs
Chocolate Mesa, Rocker Creek, Arizona
Hieroglyphic Pass, Opposite Parowan, Utah
Rock Carved by Drifting Sand
Tertiary Conglomerates, Weber Valley, Utah
Mauvaises Terres, Washakie Basin
Columnar Basalt, Mouth of Grand Wash
Opening of Brooklyn Mine, Pahranaget Lake District, Nevada
Reflected Tower, Rio Virgen, Utah
Shini-Mo Altar, from Brink of Marble Canyon, Colorado River, Arizona
Wahsatch Mountains, American Fork Canyon
Gould & Curry Reduction Works
Sand Dunes, Carson Desert, Nevada
Hot Sulphur Spring, Ruby Valley, Nevada
Comstock Lode, Gold Hill
Black Canyon, Looking Above from Camp 7
Black Canyon, from Camp 8, Looking Above
Light and Shadow in Black Canyon from Mirror Bar
Snake River Canyon, Looking over edge of Falls
Shoshone Falls, from Below
Shoshone Falls, Snake River—210 Feet
Viewpoints of the photographs taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan at Shoshone Falls, Idaho (King Survey 1868)
Grand Canyon Bottom, Morning
Grand Canyon Bottom, Afternoon
View on Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona. Two Apache Scouts in the Foreground
Black Crow, Arapaho
Southern Arapaho Chief
Long Foot, Yankton Dakota
Long Foot, Yankton Dakota
Hin-han-du-ta, "Red Owl," Arapaho
He-gma-wa-ku-wa, "One Who Runs the Tiger," North Dakota
Indian Type
Se-tan-si-tan, "Yellow Hawk," Sans Arc Chief, Dakota
Wa-jin-ka, "Little Bird," Yankton Sioux Brave, Dakota
Psi-ca-na-kin-yan, "Jumping Thunder," Yankton Sioux Chief, Dakota
Kam-ne-but-se, Black Foot
Dancers Rock, Walpi
Pueblo de San Juan, New Mexico
Walpi, Moqui Town, Arizona
Pueblo de Taos, New Mexico
Aboriginal Life Among the Navajo Indians, near Old Fort Defiance, Arizona

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François Brunet (Editor), Bronwyn Griffith (Editor)

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

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Preface

Elizabeth Glassman

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

“Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880,” presented at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, is the result of five years of hard work by an international team of scholars. The Terra Foundation for American Art is proud to support the exhibition, which presents a broad panorama of the survey photographs of the American West for the...

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Introduction

Bronwyn Griffith

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

AN ARDOR FOR DISCOVERY marks the period immediately following the American Civil War. The western territories held promise of the American future, with vast expanses of land for settlement and abundant natural resources to be tapped. Earlier governmental expeditions had employed artists to render the landscapes and, as the expeditions continued and expanded after the war, photography came to play...

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Bronwyn Griffith

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Related print edition pages: pp.8-9

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00237.001

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Chapter subject tags:Landscape photography--West (U.S.)Photography--History--19th centuryLand settlementIndians of North America

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“With the Compliments of F. V. Hayden, Geologist of the United States”: Photographic Policies of American Exploration

François Brunet

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

Pictures were essential to the fulfillment of the doctor’s plan for publicizing the Survey; but the basic purpose was always exploration. I cannot be too careful in emphasizing the fact that in this and all the following expeditions I was seldom more than a sideshow in a great circus.

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François Brunet

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.10-31

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00237.002

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Chapter subject tags:Landscape photography--West (U.S.)Photography--History--19th centuryAmerica--Discovery and explorationTourismIndians of North America

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Out West and in the Studio: Official Photographs of Indians during the Great Survey Era

Mick Gidley

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

THE GREAT TRANS-MISSISSIPPI surveys of the 1860s and 1870s were investigations of the vast lands acquired by the United States through the Louisiana Purchase from France (1803), as a result of the Mexican-American War (1846–48), through the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico (1853),...

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Mick Gidley

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.32-47

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00237.003

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Chapter subject tags:Indians of North AmericaPhotography--History--19th centuryAmerica--Discovery and explorationGeological surveys

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Catalogue: Wide Open Spaces

François Brunet

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

It is at the very moment when the nation’s photography magazines were lamenting the weakness of American landscape photography that

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François Brunet

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Related print edition pages: pp.50-69

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00237.004

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Chapter subject tags:Photography--History--19th centuryLandscape photography--West (U.S.)National parks and reservesPhotography--Technique

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Catalogue: Features of the Landscape

François Brunet

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

In addition to wide shots that capture the grandeur of open spaces, the exploration photographers regularly produced detailed motifs and more circumscribed views...

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François Brunet

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Related print edition pages: pp.70-85

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00237.005

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Chapter subject tags:Photography--History--19th centuryGeological surveysLandscape photography--West (U.S.)

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Catalogue: Timothy H. O’Sullivan: A Photographer at Work

François Brunet

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

Timothy H. O’Sullivan is today the most famous and most enigmatic of all the exploration photographers...

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François Brunet

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.86-97

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00237.006

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Chapter subject tags:Photography--History--19th centuryPhotography--TechniqueLandscape photography--West (U.S.)Explorers--AmericaSublime, The, in art

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Catalogue: Images of Native Americans

François Brunet

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

The common perception of a dichotomy between landscapes and faces within the corpus of exploration is not entirely unjustified...

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François Brunet

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.98-115

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00237.007

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Chapter subject tags:Photography--History--19th centuryIndians of North AmericaIndians of North America--PortraitsLandscape photography--West (U.S.)Photography in ethnology

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Appendix: Biographies

François Brunet (Editor), Bronwyn Griffith (Editor)

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

~William Bell
(1830–1910)

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Appendix: French Collections

François Brunet (Editor), Bronwyn Griffith (Editor)

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

~Presented here are only the four main collections which compose the exhibition “Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880.” The Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône and the Club Alpin Français in Paris, which possess only isolated objects, are not mentioned. Although we...

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Checklist to the Exhibition

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Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

EXPLORATION AND ITS CONTEXTS

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Selected Bibliography

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Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams [1907]. New York: Library of America, 1983.

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Index

François Brunet (Editor), Bronwyn Griffith (Editor)

Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880

~The index covers all parts of the book with the exception of the preface, the notes and the checklist to the exhibition. Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations and plates.

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Photograph Credits

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University of Michigan, Making of America: p. 13

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