Faces Of The Frontier: Photographic Portraits From The American West, 1845-1924

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Hardcover. VG (bump to lower corner/board edge; slight curl to front board. dampstaining to lower back board edge, no damage to interior pgs. dustjacket has light edge-wear, rubbing to corners; rippling to back cover edge). brown cloth boards w/ silver printing. 181 pgs w/ 121 plates. glossy tan-grey pictorial dustjacket w/ white printing. Remains a nice copy. Wonderfully illustrated; each plate is annotated. Includes numerous essays. "Faces of the Frontier showcases more than 120 photographic portraits of leaders, statesmen, soldiers, laborers, activists, criminals, and others, all posed before the cameras that made their way to nearly every mining shanty town and frontier outpost on the prairie. Drawing primarily on the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, this book depicts many of the people who helped transform the West between the end of the Mexican War and passage of the Indian Citizenship Act." "Accompanying the portraits are an introduction and two essays that provide historical context and help frame their interpretation. Frank Goodyear explores how photography influenced Americans' understanding of the West by giving the region a face and by shaping public responses to western issues. Richard White questions the notion that these photographs accurately represent individuals and argues that the portraits' subjects participated in a process that idealized them as types."-WorldCat.