Schitterende foto's landschap etc. in het Wilde Westen (Amerika) 1867-1875

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Onderstaande linken zijn naar prachtige opnamen van het landschap in het Wilde Westen (Amerika), die voor het eerst op foto is vastgelegd in de periode 1867 tot 1875.

Een paar van deze opnamen:
Breathtaking landscape:
A view across the Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho in 1874 as it was caught on camera by photographer Timothy O'Sullivan during Lt. George M. Wheeler's survey west of the One Hundredth Meridian that lasted from 1871 to 1874.
Approximately 45 feet higher than the Niagara falls of the U.S and Canada, the Shoshone Falls are sometimes called the 'Niagara of the West'.
Before mass migration and industrialisation of the west, the Bannock and Shoshone Indians relied on the huge salmon stocks of the falls as a source of food.
And the John C. Fremont Expedition of 1843, one of the first missions to encounter the falls reported that salmon could be caught simply by throwing a spear into the water, such was the stock
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Land rising from the water:
The Pyramid and Domes, a line of dome-shaped tufa rocks in Pyramid Lake, Nevada photographed in 1867.
Taken as part of Clarence King's Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, O'Sullivan's mesmerising pictures of the other-wordly rock formations at Pyramid Lake committed the sacred native American Indian site to camera for the first time
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Landscape:
Browns Park, Colorado, as seen by Timothy O'Sullivan in 1872 as he chartered the landscape for the first time.
Historians have noted that even though the photographer had become a more-than-experienced explorer at this point, the ordeals of the Wheeler survey tested him to the extremes of his endurance
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Timothy O'Sullivan's darkroom wagon, pulled by four mules, entered the frame at the right side of the photograph, reached the center of the image, and abruptly U-turned, heading back out of the frame.
Footprints leading from the wagon toward the camera reveal the photographer's path.
Made at the Carson Sink in Nevada, this image of shifting sand dunes reveals the patterns of tracks recently reconfigured by the wind.
The wagon's striking presence in this otherwise barren scene dramatises the pioneering experience of exploration and discovery in the wide, uncharted landscapes of the American West.
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Very plain landscape:
A distant view of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1873
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Nog meer foto's:
How the Wild West REALLY looked:
Gorgeous sepia-tinted pictures show the landscape as it was charted for the very first time
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149899/The-American-West-youve-seen-Amazing-19th-century-pictures-landscape-chartered-time.html

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