Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West
ABRAMS, July 1996. Hardcover. Item #432241
ISBN: 0810968207
A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Many impressions of the American West as a place of romance and scenic beauty, filled with towering mountains, majestic canyons and unusual wildlife, have been shaped by photographs, many of which were first seen in photographic books. This legacy includes the magnificent survey albums of the mid-19th century, turn-of-the-century ethnographic reports (notably the North American Indian Project of Edward S. Curtis), illustrated travel guides such as those by Edward Weston, books by Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter that marshalled the environmental movement, and photo-textual documents made by Dorothea Lange.
Price: $20.00