Lapland Photography

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The collection consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky.

Generally when one thinks of the American west their mind jumps to an image of untouched, unspoiled land, such as the land that is represented by America’s national parks. These tourist destinations in the West showcase the history of our nation’s land in a way that many people assume is and has always been the reality, but although the natural beauty of these lands is represented perhaps the beauty of the cultures that used to inhabit them is not.

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The illustration in #7.16, Trestle Work, Promontory Point, Salt Lake Valley by Andrew J.Russell is an image of a railroad track connecting two paths with men working on the site. Russell believed that the west was a great location to conduct his work because of the openness and freedom that was out there. Also to observe the natural scenery that it has to offer, which many have traveled to obtain such freedom and visual aspects of nature. As for #7.17, El Eaches or Three Brothers by Carleton E. Watkins is a description of a landscape winter forest by a lake, his purpose for this image was to capture the viewer's attention with the richness and the detail of the forest. For an individual to absorb the composition of the mountains in the picture

When examining American photography you must discuss the Farmer Security Administration-Office of War Information, also referred to as the FSA/OWI. This administration was the single and most significant documentary photography project in the history of United States. Photographs taken by members of the FSA/OWI all display and represent American society in different ways to help give a better understanding of major historic events occurring in the United States at this time. The members of the FSA use many formal elements to help illustrate society and its cultural that will enhance our understanding of the FSA/OWI project and United States. In addition, these formal elements such as lighting, framing, subject matter, and detail are used

The Greenland Norse are an excellent example of a society that has collapsed because of the choices they have made, but they also serve as an example of a society who suffered great challenges when considering these alternative solutions. In particular, the Greenland Norse’s lack of adaptability in the decision’s they favored regarding hunting, livestock, the relationship with the Inuit, and the need for European identity drove their society to a collapse.

“Home on the Range,” the state song of Kansas and the musical embodiment of the American West. With its original composition dated in the early 1870’s and continued popularity around campfires today, this song offers listeners a chance to remember the true West – a land “where the buffalo roam, and the deer and the antelope play… and the skies are not cloudy all day.” This song describes a beautiful, open frontier where humanity admires nature and the two live in harmony with one another. An area full of wild animals and natural landscapes alongside cowboys and farmers. With this song in mind, people of the past and present may envision wilderness alongside tranquility, a place characterized by its mutually beneficial relationship with the land. Although many envision the 19th century American frontier as an open land full of forests, plains, buffalo, cowboys, and Indians, the actual American frontier was a large industrial system – blinded by capital – that relied on the exploitation of the natural world, technology to transform this nature into capital, and trains to link together this vast industrial frontier.

[1] These lands contained a great supply of natural resources which the settles took advantage of and re-possessed from the Natives. Another great exemplary piece, Yosemite Valley by artist Albert Bierstadt. [1] “Far to the westward, widening more and more, it opens into the bosom of great mountain-ranges, into a field of perfect light, misty by its own excess, into an unspeakable suffusion of glory created from the phoenix-pile of the dying sun” ~Fitz Hugh Ludlow, 1864. This painting holds a scene that had belonged to Mexico twenty years prior, but was taken for possession by the United States and was magnified into detail by the words of Fitz Hugh Ludlow then reflected into a visual representation by Bierstadt. A third example but not the last one in history, View of a Native Forest Being Reduced to Coal, by Félix Emile Taunay, a piece done in Brazil of Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest before and after being drained of its natural resources. Taunay intertwined multiple stages of the timbering process into one composition, revealing the industry as a major source of produce for Brazil but clearly a very ecologically damaging

Chelsie Spacke Photography is a portrait photography studio that is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. They specialize in newborn photography. Chelsie Spacke Photography continues to photograph babies up to the first year of their lives. Chelsie Spacke Photography also offers family photography as well. These family portraits along with their memories will definitely last a lifetime. Chelsie Spacke has studied in the Purchase College where she majored in Fine Art Photography and Art History. Chelsie Spacke has concentrated on the study of history of photography specifically.

They contributed many photo essays to Arizona Highways, though Adams was less than thrilled with their color reproductions. Still, they are important for they championed a “uniqueness of the ‘American’ earth at a time when other artists and intellectuals were drawn to ideas of internationalism” (Dunaway, 2005, p. 131). The Sierra Club’s new storytelling technique the coffee table book and National Geographic’s photo-driven essays also grew in popularity. Other conservation organizations quickly grasped the value of photos as a way to appeal to Americans on a more personal and intimate level the importance of humanity’s relationship with land and nature (Corbett, 2006; Neuzil, 2008; Sierra Club,

Carol Payne’s, “How Shall We Use These Gifts?” Imagining the Land in the National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division,” is a 2007 Canadian article that discusses how the presentation of Canadian landscapes in the 1950’s and 1960’s by the National Film Board (NFB) and its Still Photography Division created a false reality of economic and resource rich value that many come to believe as true.

In “Rongier Hill,” William Least Heat-moon introduces readers to a “giant map of the United States”. (10) He imagines the drawing of lines through the middle of the United States and how these two lines would cross together. His story is a place of comfort and peace, where he found himself. Yet we see how the story gets to making sense and bringing all the parts together; from the sighting seeing on the prairie to the town people and the lady driving on the road. By telling the story from his point of view, it allows us to somehow share his feelings and ways of thinking on his journey.

Adams cherished the times he spent on vacation in Yosemite with his family. He spent part of his life teaching others how to capture the panoramic beauty of our national parks. In 1940 he taught his first of many workshops “The U.S. Camera Photographic Forum” in Yosemite with Edward Weston (Capa, 1986).

Prestridge Photography is a portrait photography facility located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They are composed of a team. The leading photographer is Monique Prestridge who has been doing photography for more than 10 years. She has been trained at the Oklahoma School of Photography and has received her certification. Prestridge Photography specializes in portraiture, wedding and engagement, senior portraits, event photographer, family, kids, children, pet, photography, commercial/editorial, sports/action, landscape, and in fine art photography.