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Photographing in High Places

Photographing in High Places

William Henry Jackson
1872

Jackson captured images of the Tetons using wet-plate photography. As this technique requires near immediate development, Jackson (seated) and his assistant Charles Campbell had to process the fresh plates on treacherous terrain with a portable darkroom.

Gelatin bromide print on paper. H 20, W 25 cm
Scotts Bluff National Monument, SCBL 841