Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories Timothy H O’Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photographers who joined expeditions in the 1860s and 1870s, opened the eyes of nineteenth-century оеоьц Americans to the western frontier Highlighting a recent Smart Museum of Art acquisition, One/Many brings together an exquisite group of photographs by Bell and O’Sullivan Particularly noteworthy are their photographic panoramas, assemblages of individual images joined together to form a continuous, horizontal landscape view These panoramas have not been exhibited in well over a century and have never before been published For the first time, One/Many investigates their role and purpose both within and outside of the surveys, taking into account the larger context of nineteenth-century modes of viewing The volume also allows the little-known Bell’s work to be better understood next to that of his more famous colleague.  Edit2006 г Мягкая обложка, 125 стр ISBN 0935573437.