John K. Hillers
(1843 - 1925)
Eagle Crag, Rio Virjen, Utah
albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard
32.30 X 23.50 cm
1872
Born in 1843, he was a government photographer, he first worked as a teamster in Salt Lake City. Later he spent twenty years photographing and exploring the American west, he took many photographs of Native Americans. 3,000 negatives from the Powell Survey and 20,000 negatives of the Bureau of Ethnology are credited to his name. He also photographed for the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region from 1870 to 1879.
"Myself in the water" - Kaibab Paiutes, meaning that he took very clear pictures.
After the Civil War, the army was accompanied by artists and photographers, at that time it was known as the most accurate method of record keeping because the close-ups and large geological formations. The western photographs was effective in winning public attention. This photograph shows how the mountains were in the west.
The angle that Hillers took this photograph is astonishing, how he included the river along with the mountains in the background. I chose this photograph because it remind me a lot of Colorado even though it was taken in Utah.
Eagle Crag, Rio Virjen, Utah
albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard
32.30 X 23.50 cm
1872
Born in 1843, he was a government photographer, he first worked as a teamster in Salt Lake City. Later he spent twenty years photographing and exploring the American west, he took many photographs of Native Americans. 3,000 negatives from the Powell Survey and 20,000 negatives of the Bureau of Ethnology are credited to his name. He also photographed for the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region from 1870 to 1879.
"Myself in the water" - Kaibab Paiutes, meaning that he took very clear pictures.
After the Civil War, the army was accompanied by artists and photographers, at that time it was known as the most accurate method of record keeping because the close-ups and large geological formations. The western photographs was effective in winning public attention. This photograph shows how the mountains were in the west.
The angle that Hillers took this photograph is astonishing, how he included the river along with the mountains in the background. I chose this photograph because it remind me a lot of Colorado even though it was taken in Utah.
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