Light in the West.

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FilmPublisher number: 6577930 | KanopyPublisher: Michael Blackwood Productions, 1980Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

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computer

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online resource

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Documentary films.

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Carleton Watkins, Charles Crocker, Chief Satanck, Chief Seattle, Chief Ten Bears, Clarence King, Collis Huntington, Dr. Herman Vogel, Eadweard Muybridge, Ferdinand V. Hayden, Flora Shallcross Stone, Frederick Dellenbaugh, General John Pope, Jack Hillers, Julia Watkins, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins Jr., Mathew Brady, Mjr. John Wesley Powell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sam Bowles, Timothy O'Sullivan, William H. JacksonSummary: When photography was in its infancy, the American West was still a frontier; and, for a period of about fifty years, the two interacted in a complex and fascinating way. Dramatic subject matter in the West became accessible to photographers just when the newly-discovered wet-plate process enabled them to work outdoors. Thereafter, Western explorers consistently used photography to record their discoveries. It was primarily through the resulting photographs that the frontier became known. Ironically, these early images hastened the demise of the frontier they so beautifully documented. LIGHT IN THE WES rediscovers this empire through the eyes (and camera lenses) of the extraordinary people who were the first photographers to venture west. At a time when making photographs was as difficult as traveling in uncharted wilderness, these men truly were pioneers.

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Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 1980.

When photography was in its infancy, the American West was still a frontier; and, for a period of about fifty years, the two interacted in a complex and fascinating way. Dramatic subject matter in the West became accessible to photographers just when the newly-discovered wet-plate process enabled them to work outdoors. Thereafter, Western explorers consistently used photography to record their discoveries. It was primarily through the resulting photographs that the frontier became known. Ironically, these early images hastened the demise of the frontier they so beautifully documented. LIGHT IN THE WES rediscovers this empire through the eyes (and camera lenses) of the extraordinary people who were the first photographers to venture west. At a time when making photographs was as difficult as traveling in uncharted wilderness, these men truly were pioneers.

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