AMS 105- American West: Images and Identities


Photographers Of The West                                             

 


Artist
Examples of Work Notes
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) SF Earthquake Carmel artist colony
Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) El Capitan, Yosemite  
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) Tenya Canyon from Union Point (1872)  
William H. Jackson (1843-1942) Upper Basins, Soda Springs (1871)

Mountain of the Holy Cross (Colorado) (1875)

 
Edward Curtis (1868-1952) Canyon de Chelly, Navajos Mostly Native American subjects
Timothy O’Sullivan (1840-1882) Green River (Colorado) (1868)

Canyon de Chelly (1873)

 
A. J. Russell (1829-1902) Castle Rocks, Green River Valley (1867-68)  
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) The Great Blow of 1934

Ditched, Stalled, and Stranded (1935)

Migrant Madonna (1936)

WPA and Dust Bowl
Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985) A Bank That Failed, Southwest Kansas (1935)  
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Jeffrey Pine, Moonrise Famous B/W style
Edward Weston (1886-1958) Big Sur, Point Lobos  
John K. Hillers (1843-1925) Powell Expedition (1873-74) x11  
Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) Black Bull (1872) Civil War work with M. Brady
Charles R. Savage (1832-1903) Promontory Summit (1872)  
Eadweard J. Muybridge (1830-1904) Vernal Falls (1872)