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Title: Glass Plates & Wagon Ruts: Images of the Southwest by Lisle Updike and William Pennington by H. Jackson Clark, Updike Lisle, Duane A. Smith, William Pennington ISBN: 0-87081-495-8 Publisher: University Press of Colorado Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Fabulous and Worthwhile Photographs
Comment: I love the photographs in "Glass Plates and Wagon Ruts." This book, by H. Jackson Clark, records the history of Lisle Update and William Pennington, who creates an amazing photoarchive of the American Southwest in the first several decades of the twentieth century.

Clark presents nearly 100 classic photographs, around which he tells the story of constant travel in the Four Corners states by these two reknown photographers. Many of these photos are of Native Americans, both in the Pueblos of New Mexico, and in Navajo and Apache territory in Arizona. The prints, in particular, represent some of the best photo portraits from these cultures in existence.

Some of the pictures will just surprise you. My favorite is one of the Wright Brothers' plane, flown at a fair in Colorado in 1914. I really enjoyed this book. If you have an interest in the Southwest, or in old photography, the chances are good that you will, too.

Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointed in quality of prints
Comment: I learned about this book from a review in the "Lands End" catalogue, of all places, and was thrilled by the quality and depth of the prints. I thereupon decided that I had to have the book. However, I was really disappointed. In my opinion, the prints reproduced in the book do not come anywhere close to the quality of the prints in the Lands End catalogue. The prints in the book look washed out and blurred, whereas Lands End prints were sharp, with plenty of detail.

Rating: 5
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Comment: Why is Amazon selling this book at full price