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Mick Gidley
The Grass Shall Grow is a succinct introduction to the work and world of Helen M. Post, who took thousands of photographs of Native Americans during a brief period of…
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Contributor Martin Padget’s essay: Native Americans, the Photobook and the Southwest: Ansel Adams’ and Mary Austin’s Taos Pueblo was awarded the 2010 Arthur Miller Essay Prize. This book offers a…
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Mick Gidley’s Photography and the USA is a concise yet comprehensive history of photography in the United States. The book features approximately 100 iconic as well as lesser-known photographers including…
Provides an intimate and informative glimpse of photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) and his associates as they embarked on their epic quest to document through word and picture the traditional…
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Mick Gidley (Emeritus Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Leeds)
From the 1890s onwards, Edward S. Curtis took thousands of photographs of Native Americans all over the West. These were published (1907-1930) in twenty volumes of illustrated text and twenty…
This book is about the ways American and British writers, painters and photographers have represented the American environment, bringing together essays which consider the one hundred and twenty years following…
As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the US government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. This work presents the glass-plate photographs from these federal surveys. It also…
In the years between 1930 and 1980, some of the best-known photographers from around the world came to London and made its streets, buildings and communities their subject. This title…
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Picturing Atrocity contains a broad range of atrocity photographs from throughout history, and around the world, as well as essays by well-known artists and photographers. All royalties from the book…
Representing Others examines a diverse range of cultural forms in which white novelists, sculptors, diarists, photographers, ethnographers, travel writers and filmmakers have depicted Native American, African, Pacific and Australian Aboriginal…
