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The Unspoiled West: The Western Landscape As Seen by Its Greatest Photographers
	Creator: Jerome Prescott Publisher: Smithmark Publishers Category: Book List Price: ~~$15.98~~ Buy New: $4.39 You Save: $11.59 (73%) Qty 1 In Stock New (5) Used (25) Collectible (1) from $1.58 Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 2376333 Media: Hardcover Pages: 128 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3 Dimensions (in): 12 x 10 x 1.3 ISBN: 083179058X Dewey Decimal Number: 771 EAN: 9780831790585 ASIN: 083179058X Publication Date: March 1995 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: NEW BOOK - MISSING DUSTJACKET HENCE REDUCED cost. ...sent WITHIN 24 HOURS


Editorial Reviews: Product Description 100+ b&w photos. 11 1/2 x 9 1/2.

Customer Reviews: These are the people who first brought the grandeur of the West to the world. July 8, 2007 J. Guild (Toronto,Canada) This is pure and simple a coffee table book. I don't mean that in any derogatory sense at all. It's fairly large,10X12 inches,and only 128 pages.The first 20 pages of text gives a good history of how photography was invented and took off like a rocket during the Civil War and particularly the decade after.Here we learn who these earliest photographers were,the equipment and methods available to them;and how they proceeded to photograph this newly found West so that it could be shared with the rest of the world. The amazing thing about it all is that the quality of the photographs and skill of the photographers was so good and developed so quickly.To an untrained eye,like myself,it is impossible to tell if the photograph was taken during the frontier time;or just recently. The other hundred or so pages are mostly full-page landscape photographs,accompanied with short notes of description and names of the photographer.Most of the photographs were taken in the 1870's;so the whole book is B&W. But don't let that dissuade you. Ansel Adams and others have shown what can be done without color. No wonder many prefer B&W to color ,even today,particularly with landscapes and portraits.