William Henry Jackson's "The Pioneer Photographer"

About this book

Of the many published accounts to come out of William Henry Jacksons long career The Pioneer Photographer first published in 1929 is widely accepted as Jacksons most trusted autobiography of his early pioneering days and his first eight years as the official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey. This reconstruction of Jacksons classic work long out of print presents 160 photographs and early drawings paintings and lithographs by Americas best-known landscape photographer drawing on Jacksons diaries other published accounts and his annotations of The Pioneer Photographer to create a complete and multidimensional view of the unfolding nineteenth-century American West. Editor Bob Blair has significantly expanded Jacksons original autobiography reprinted here in full with the authors annotations with seventy additional photographs drawings and paintings and extensive excerpts from Jacksons writings much of the new material drawn from archives and historical collections and never before published.