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Henry Hamilton Bennett — Turkey River Bluff, No. 1543 from the series "Among the Bluff Scenery of the Upper Mississippi"

Henry Hamilton Bennett

Turkey River Bluff, No. 1543 from the series "Among the Bluff Scenery of the Upper Mississippi"

1870

Bennett's Mississippi River series captures the monumental scale of bluff country geology that would later inspire regionalist painters and establish the Upper Mississippi as an iconic American landscape.

Medium
Albumen print, stereo

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Henry Hamilton Bennett, Turkey River Bluff, No. 1543 from the series "Among the Bluff Scenery of the Upper Mississippi", 1870

Bennett's Mississippi River series captures the monumental scale of bluff country geology that would later inspire regionalist painters and establish the Upper Mississippi as an iconic American landscape.

Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Year
1870
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Landscape Photography, American Photography, 19th Century, Documentary Photography, River Scenery, Geological Formation, Pictorialism, Stereoview

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