Early Images of The Southwest - The Lantern Slides of Ansel F. Hall (2075)

9" (23 cm) wide x 8" (22 cm) high
90 pages
by Jack Turner

Beautiful lantern slides capture the essence of the early southwest.

The mysterious and timeless world of the desert Southwest is vividly brought to life in these rare, hand-tinted photographs for an historic 1930s expedition.

The Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-38 is generally regarded as "The Last Great Expedition" in the continental United States, and covered an area of the Southwest rarely seen previously by white people. Its lasting legacy was the generation of nearly 100 hand-tinted lantern slides, an unusual combination of painting and photography that produced pictures more beautiful and vivid than either art on its own. These images began as glass plate black and white transparencies, which were then were hand-tinted by artists working in New York and Berkeley. Shown here are Navajo people at work and play, abandoned cliff dwellings, haunting landscapes, and the castellated rock formations of the American Southwest.


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