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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. Very good/very good. orange cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 224 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Yale University Press, 2022. Hardcover. New. 224 pages. 11.50x10.25x1.00 inches.

New. Scottish-born Alexander Henderson (1831-1913) arrived in Montreal in 1855 at the age of twenty-four, eager to explore the Canadian wilderness. Photography, his observation tool, would also reveal a remarkable artistic sensibility. Little-known among the general public, his work laid the foundations of the Canadian romantic landscape and its themes: the magic of winter, the endless lure of the country's lakes and waterways, the metaphysical awe inspired by the vastness of its land and its great river. But Henderson also offered a colonial vision of the young North American city and documented a number of Canada's major railway projects. This publication accompanies the first exhibition devoted to Alexander Henderson's entire oeuvre and focusses on photographs that highlight the tonalities, textures and clarity characteristic of the prints of the period. Texts explore Henderson's biography, the sources and forms of romanticism evident in his landscapes, and the genesis of his… Read More

Editions Hazan, Paris, 2022-09-26. hardcover. New. 10x1x11. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing