Main entry:

Davis, Keith F., 1952-

Title & Author:

Timothy H. O'Sullivan : the King Survey photographs / Keith F. Davis & Jane L. Aspinwall ; with François Brunet, John P. Herron, Mark Klett ; director's forward by Julián Zugazagoitia.

Publication:

Description:

252 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 22, 2011-Jan. 15, 2012 and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Apr. 12-Aug. 26, 2012"--Title page verso.
"Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 22, 2011-Jan. 15, 2012 and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Apr. 12-Aug. 26, 2012"--T.p. verso.
Ed. of 2,8000 copies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251).
Representing the West: from Lewis and Clark to the great surveys of 1867-79 / Keith F Davis -- Making an American landscape: art, nature, and the science of Clarence King / John P Herron -- Clarence King's fortieth parallel survey / Keith F Davis -- Timothy H. O'Sullivan: photographer / Keith F Davis -- Plates -- Showing American geography abroad in the Victorian Era: the international reception of the King survey work / François Brunet -- Seeing what O'Sullivan saw / Mark Klett -- Timothy H. O'Sullivan's fortieth parallel survey photographs: a chronology and catalogue raisonné / Jane L Aspinwall.

Summary:

"Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swath of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer--Timothy O'Sullivan--who produced about 450 finished photographs in large-format and smaller-format stereographs. O'Sullivan's images convey a distinct individual quality of perception, at once direct and laconic, as well as a perfect union of objective fact and personal interpretation. As such, O'Sullivan remains the most admired, studied, and debated photographer who worked on the great western surveys of the 19th century. This handsome and enlightening book aims to enrich and enlarge our understanding of O'Sullivan's pivotal body of western photographs by emphasizing the idea of context. This ambition encompasses several frames of reference: O'Sullivan's best-known images in relation to his larger body of survey work; the function his photographs served in relation to the survey's overall goals and methodologies; and the King Survey itself as a logical part of a complex and prolonged expeditionary endeavor. The volume also includes an essential catalogue raisonné of O'Sullivan's King Survey work."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9780300179842 (cloth)
0300179847 (cloth)

Subject:

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882 Travel West (U.S.) Exhibitions.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901 Travel West (U.S.) Exhibitions.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901.
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882.
United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881) Exhibitions.
United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel.
Landscape photography West (U.S.) History 19th century Exhibitions.
Photography in geography History 19th century Exhibitions.
Geological surveys West (U.S.) History 19th century Exhibitions.
Photographie en géographie Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Geological surveys.
Landscape photography.
Photography in geography.
Travel.
West (U.S.) Pictorial works Exhibitions.
West United States.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Catalogues raisonnés.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
History.
Exhibitions.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882.
Aspinwall, Jane Lee, 1967-
Brunet, François.
Herron, John P., 1968-
Klett, Mark, 1952-
Zugazagoitia, Julián.
Art Institute of Chicago.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Hall Family Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.)

King Survey photographs
King Survey

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276873
Call No.: TR140.O85 D3 2011
Status: Available