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Title: Fabulous and Worthwhile Photographs
Review: I love the photographs in "Glass Plates and Wagon Ruts." This book, by H. Jackson Clark, records the history of Lisle Update and William Pennington, who creates an amazing photoarchive of the American Southwest in the first several decades of the twentieth century.Clark presents nearly 100 classic photographs, around which he tells the story of constant travel in the Four Corners states by these two reknown photographers. Many of these photos are of Native Americans, both in the Pueblos of New Mexico, and in Navajo and Apache territory in Arizona. The prints, in particular, represent some of the best photo portraits from these cultures in existence.Some of the pictures will just surprise you. My favorite is one of the Wright Brothers' plane, flown at a fair in Colorado in 1914. I really enjoyed this book. If you have an interest in the Southwest, or in old photography, the chances are good that you will, too.
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