Into the Sunset

Book excerpt: This volume explores how photography has shaped and transformed the American West in the collective imagination, from 1850 to today. This investigation includes a broad range of styles, from nineteenth-century works made a few years after the invention of photography to iconic images of the twentieth century, to pictures made in the early twenty-first century. Includes works by famous photographers and artists such as Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Larry Sultan.