Cimarron Canyon, New Mexico.

[AMERICAN WEST]. JACKSON, William Henry (1843-1942)

Verlag: S.l., ca. 1880

Beschreibung

Vignetted albumen photograph print (16 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.; 442.6 x 54 cm) signed and titled in the lower right corner on the wet glass plate negative) and mounted on grey card (22 x 28 in. 55.9 x 71.1 cm); minor spotting in the upper left corner of the image. Loosely laid down on mat board and enclosed in mylar. (6.5B.2C) A SCARCE AND EVOCATIVE IMAGE OF THE NEW MEXICO LANDSCAPE BY ONE OF THE FOREMOST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST. The view shows railroad tracks bifurcating the canyon's escarpments. After a tour of duty in the Civil War, Jackson headed West and eventually settled in Omaha, Nebraska, where he opened a portrait studio. However, Jackson conceded that: "Portrait photography never had any charms for me so I sought my subject from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures" We have been able to trace only two copies of the print at auction: Heritage Auctions, Dallas (2018) and Swann Galleries (2003). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 65ERM0137

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cimarron Canyon, New Mexico.

Verlag: S.l., ca. 1880

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers