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Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography

by Shannon Egan , Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781647690625
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Utah Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Utah Press
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  • Pages: 260
  • Original Price: USD 34.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 953 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes

Across the West and Toward the North compares how photographers in Norway and the United States represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wildernesses were first surveyed, developed, and photographed. Making images while traversing almost inaccessible terrain--often on foot and for months at a time--photographers created a compelling visual language that came to symbolize each nation.

In this edited volume, Norwegian and American scholars offer the first study of the striking parallels in the production, distribution, and reception of these modern expressions of landscape and nationhood. In recognizing how landscape photographs were made meaningful to international audiences--such as tourists, visitors to world's fairs, scientists, politicians, and immigrants--the authors challenge notions of American exceptionalism and singularly nationalistic histories.

The book includes stunning photographs of mountainous landscapes, glaciers, and forests, punctuated by signs of human development and engineering, with more than one hundred rarely seen plates by photographers Knud Knudsen, Anders Beer Wilse, Timothy O'Sullivan, Charles R. Savage, and others.

Shannon Egan is director of the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College and the cofounder and codirector of the art gallery Ejecta Projects. She has authored articles on photographers Edward S. Curtis and Jeff Wall, and co-authored the artbook Ejecta.

Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad is the curator at Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø. She is coauthor of Starman--Sophus Tromholt Photographs 1882-1883, and coeditor of Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities.

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