How Art Made the World by Nigel Spivey

Author:Nigel Spivey [NIGEL SPIVEY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

64 The Natural Bridge, Virginia by F.E. Church, 1852.

65 T.H. O'Sullivan’s atmospheric photograph, taken in 1871, of Black Canyon on the Colorado River, Arizona.

Church did also seek beyond the United States for his views, painting in the Arctic and in the tropics. For most Americans, however, the wonders of their own land were sufficiently venerable, and to be witnessed with proper trepidation even if captured on camera.When Congress dispatched a geological survey to the Great Basin areas of Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico in 1867–74, the expedition was accompanied by the photographer Timothy O’Sullivan, who took care to convey the fearsome aspect of the scenery he recorded. Few of his compositions lack a human figure as some minuscule indicator of scale; so even when conditions were evidently sunny and placid, the sense of an immanent Almighty is installed with due apprehension (Fig. 65).

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