Title & Author:

An Open Land : photographs of the Midwest, 1852-1982 / Rhondal McKinney, curator ; Victoria Post Ranney, editor.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Art Institute of Chicago, ©1983.
©1983

Description:

80 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Open Lands Project in association with the Art Institute of Chicago and Aperture, Inc."
Includes photography by Robert Adams, J.C. Allen, Tom Arndt, Frank Bill, Jay Boersma, Vernon Cheek, Gary Cialdella, Will Cundill, Andrew Dahl, Keith F. Davis, Stephen Davis, Francois Deschamps, James Enyeart, Terry Evans, Larry Ferguson, Anna Fisher, Robbert Flick, Alexander Gardner, Gerhard Gesell, Frank Gohlke, Alexander Hesler, C.A. Hickman, H.L. Hime, Earl Iversen, Michael Johnson, W.D. Johnson, Stuart Klipper, Frank Lane, Arthur Lazar, Lawrence McFarland, Rhondal McKinney, Wright Morris, Kathryn Paul, Joseph Judd Pennell, W.C. Persons, Nancy Sparrow Plasko, David Plowden, Robert Ridgeway, F.N. Robinson, Arthur Rothstein, Larry Schwarm, Art Sinsabaugh, Paul Vanderbilt, and Lucia Woods.
Includes bibliographical references (page 74).

Summary:

"America grew up on the prairies. When explorers and pioneers first ventured into Indiana's tallgrass meadows in the early 1800's, the United States was a sparsely settled nation with little power. By the time the last high plains were tamed in the 1890's this country was poised on a new era of global domination. Between these times a flood of settlers poured over this vast grassland, shaping it to their ways. In doing so they very nearly destroyed its original beauty which so deeply moved early visitors. Yet the prairies, in their physical passing away, found a permanent place in the midwest soul, spawning an artistic movement which captured the creative minds of generations. With some sixty photographs, 'An Open Land: Photographs of the Midwest 1852-1982' describes 130 years of landscape photography in the Midwest. By the time the first of these photographs were made the prairies had disappeared under the settler's plow. All that remained of the prairies to be preserved was their image. It is an image that even now survives stubbornly with all Americans. It is an image of a quintessential American landscape, an open land where movement is free and vision is unbounded." --back cover

ISBN:

0893811319 (pbk.)
9780893811310 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape photography Middle West.
Landscape photography Middle West Exhibitions.
Photography Middle West Exhibitions.
Photographie de paysages Midwest (États-Unis)
Photographie de paysages Midwest (États-Unis) Expositions.
Photographie Midwest (États-Unis) Expositions.
Landscape photography
Middle West Pictorial works.
Middle West Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Midwest (États-Unis) Ouvrages illustrés.
Midwest (États-Unis) Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Middle West

Form/genre:

Exhibition, pictorial works
Exhibition catalogs
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

McKinney, Rhondal.
Ranney, Victoria Post.
Open Lands Project (Chicago, Ill.)
Art Institute of Chicago.
Aperture, Inc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288977
Call No.: BIB 231079
Status: Available