East Fork, de Chelly River, Arizona
1879 · albumen print from wet collodion negative
Image: 32.4 x 24.4 cm (12 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 32.4 x 24.4 cm (12 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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John Hillers
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Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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American Landscapes
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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Photographs of the Civil War and the American Frontier
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942
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John Hillers was an American photographer and cartographer active in the late nineteenth century, best known for his documentation of geological surveys and landscape exploration in the American West. Working primarily with large-format albumen and gelatin dry plate processes, he produced extensive visual records of canyon systems, river valleys, and indigenous settlements across the Colorado Plateau and surrounding regions. His photographs served both scientific and archival purposes, establishing a visual record of geological formations and settlements during a period of rapid Western expansion.
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