West and West: Reimagining the Great Plains

by Joe Deal

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 officially opened the Great Plains to westward settlement, and the public survey of 1855 by Charles A. Manners and Joseph Ledlie along the Sixth Principal Meridian established the grid by which the uncharted expanse of the Great Plains was brought into scale. The mechanical act performed by land surveyors is believed by photographer Joe Deal to be powerfully similar to the artistic act of making a photograph.To Deal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193519500X
• ISBN13: 9781935195009
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Center for American Places
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.0" x 11.0"