President in Yellowstone : The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Ar...
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President in Yellowstone : The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Ar.... Goodyear puts the photographs in context: Yellowstone was the first national park, only eleven years old. The text printed in the album was issued as daily dispatches to the Associated Press. Though he concentrates on the photographs, Goodyear speaks to the way the whole expedition reflected and shaped ideas about the President, the value of the West, and who did and didn't belong there. President in Yellowstone : The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthur's 1883 Expedition, Hardcover by Goodyear, Frank H., III, ISBN 080614355X, ISBN-13 9780806143552, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Volume eleven in the Charles M. Russell Center series of the American West , this book reproduces in facsimile a rare album of photographs of President Chester A. Arthur's trip to Yellowstone National Park. This version is from the Library of Congress copy. The volume also includes a long guide by Frank H. Goodyear, III (co-director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art), cleanly written for interested general readers and scholars. Goodyear puts the photographs in context: Yellowstone was the first national park, only eleven years old. There had never been a Presidential visit to the far West. The expedition walked a fine line between generating publicity and not embarrassing Arthur, who did not have Theodore Roosevelt's wilderness experience. The text printed in the album was issued as daily dispatches to the Associated Press. Though he concentrates on the photographs, Goodyear speaks to the way the whole expedition reflected and shaped ideas about the President, the value of the West, and who did and didn't belong there. He discusses how the documentary team was chosen: Frank Jay Haynes was a commercial photographer, as the expedition would not take a journalist. Colonel Michael V. Sheridan, who wrote the text, was the brother of General Sheridan, the President's designated Western host, guide, and protector. Goodyear looks at the subject matter, including prototypical Western camp photos, landscape photos, and Indian photos. He also speaks to the aesthetic quality of the photographs, and gives technical information. As sepia tone images printed in the 19th-century style of several to a page or one to a page with large borders, they do not have the instant impact of Ansel Adams. But they are equally remarkable, as historical records and often as photographic art. Th is beautifully produced on matte paper. The facsimile pages are reproduced at slightly smaller than original size, but they are not much reduced, the print quality is high, and the white border around each facsimile page allows readers to see how the tinted paper color affects the print image and our reaction to it. Oversize: ". Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
