The first surviving photograph made with a camera is Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s View from the Window at Le Gras, created at his estate in France in 1826 or 1827. It was a landscape. Out of everything a camera could have recorded first, history handed the honor to a view from an upstairs window: rooftops, outbuildings, and a slice of countryside holding still in the summer light...
Some of the most influential and famous landscape photographers in American history built their work around the national parks and landscapes of the American West. From Carleton Watkins and William Henry Jackson to Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and Galen Rowell, their photographs helped define how generations of viewers—and photographers—learned to see wilderness...
