Wood, John. The Photographic Arts by John Wood. Signed Copy An Ambiguous

An Ambiguous

massive industrial centers

dramatic scars left on the Earth's surface by human activity

Commissioned as a major visual project to celebrate the American Bicentennial era

of which Stepping Through the Ashes was his ninth

Wood, John. The Photographic Arts by John Wood. Signed Copy An AmbiguousUniversity of Iowa, 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, as new in original shrink wrap. [Wood, an excellent writer who penned other notable volumes on photography, here explores the Western American daguerreotype, the contemporary Autochrome, the art of cyanotype, European pictorialism, and American symbolism in photography. Keys: American West; Autochrome; Cyanotype; Symbolism; Pictorialism; Stieglitz; Jerry Spagnoli; Daguerrotypes; Fred Payne