Across the West and Toward the North

Shannon Egan is director of the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College and the cofounder and codirector of the art gallery Ejecta Projects. She has authored articles on photographers Edward S. Curtis and Jeff Wall, and co-authored the artbook Ejecta. Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad is the curator at Perspektivet Museum, Tromso. She is coauthor of Starman-Sophus Tromholt Photographs 1882-1883, and coeditor of Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities.

List of Plates List of Figures Foreword by Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Views from Across the West and Toward the North-Shannon Egan 2. Ragged Places and Rugged Men: Photography, the American West, and Masculine Mettle-James R. Swensen 3. Traveling with Knud Knudsen: Roads and Railways in Norwegian Photography-Torild Gjesvik 4. Getting Soaked at Yellowstone: Photography and the Making of the Tourist Landscape-Elizabeth Hutchinson 5. Nature and Photography: Anders Beer Wilse's Photographic Equivalents-Trond Erik Bjorli 6. Views Across Continents: Ten Photographs-Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad 7. Dwelling in the Photographic Landscape-Elizabeth Hutchinson 8. Lieutenant von Hahnke's Ill-Fated Bicycle Trip-Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad 9. On a Summer Snowbank: A View toward the Glacier-Shannon Egan 10. Carl Abraham Pihl and Andrew J. Russell: Railway Landscapes-Torild Gjesvik 11. Landscapes with More than Mountains: Give and Take-James R. Swensen Photographers' Biographies by-Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad Select Bibliography List of Contributors Index

Across the West and Toward the North examines how Norwegian and American photographers pictured the landscape in a period of earthshaking technological transformation and expanding infrastructure. Shared artistic strategies are revealed through this smart cross-cultural study, which challenges entrenched notions that nationalism was uniquely expressed and understood in the landscape photography of each country. This book anticipates growing transna-tional scholarship resulting from the bicentennial commemoration of Norwegian immigration to North America in 2025." - Leslie Ann Anderson, Director of Collections, Exhibitions, and Programs, National Nordic Museum "This international collaboration reveals fascinating parallels among nineteenth-century American and Scandinavian landscape photographers whose shared motifs-sublime geological phenomena, ethnographic and landscape tourism, wayfarers, railroads, bridges, roads, and inhabited landscapes-affirm communal, transnational connections. Such images featuring environmental exploration and exploitation, underscoring the delicate balance of nature and culture, have lasting relevance." - Theresa Leininger-Miller, professor, Art History, University of Cincinnati