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  alternate name: Photographic surveying--History--19th century
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  alternate name: Geological surveys--United States--History--19th century
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310102949
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310212775
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31086494
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127061
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128400
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128415
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128576
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128579
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130834
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320132268
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320133258
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320133260
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320133263
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320212772
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330137783
abstract: "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. The technical and promotional needs of surveys, Kelsey argues, fostered the emergence of a taut, graphic pictorial style that imitated the informational clarity of diagrams and maps. As this book demonstrates, these pictures became sites of struggle as well as innovation when three brilliant survey artists and photographers subtly resisted the programs they were hired to serve. Discovering a politics of style behind the modernist look of survey pictures, Kelsey offers a fresh interpretation of canonical western expedition photographs by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and introduces two exceptional but largely forgotten sets of pictures: views of the U.S.-Mexico boundary from the 1850s by Arthur Schott and photographs of the Charleston earthquake of 1886 by C. C. Jones"--Provided by publisher.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31059374
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31059374
language: eng
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  text: Text in English.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Introduction : riddles and premises -- Arthur Schott : marking the Mexican boundary -- Timothy H. O'Sullivan : surveys of the American West -- C.C. Jones : the USGS investigation of the Charleston Earthquake -- Conclusion : archive style.
temporal coverage: 1850-1890
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301316551

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