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"In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Jessamine Spear Johnson received her first camera from her mother, which would spark her lifelong love of photography. With that camera (and many others), Johnson witnessed and captured the day-to-day activities on her dude ranch and the western frontier in Montana and Wyoming. Her images also depict the rapid changes that took place in the early 1900s, from the increasing prevalence of domestic mammals and modern machinery to the ranch roles held by women to the reservation life of the Crows and Cheyennes. On 25 June 1926, Johnson captured the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Battle of Little Bighorn. To advance her skill, Johnson also experimented with angles and objects in her compositions and photographic processing techniques that were not common at the time, such as hand-tinting and double-exposure layering, which allowed her to record western scenes in a unique and aesthetically pleasing way. The photographic art of Jessamine Spear Johnson, including iconic prints often not credited to her, is now showcased and explained in this collection"--
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Tempe Javitz, Jessamine Spear Johnson's granddaughter, has compiled over one hundred of Jessamine's photographs for
Bighorn Visions, the first publication to showcase her work in such detail. Javitz also contributes vital essays and informative captions that contextualize her grandmother's life and work. In addition, historian Mary Murphy situates Johnson's life and career in relation to broader shifts in ranching, tourism, and photography in the region in a wide-ranging introduction. Collectively,
Bighorn Visions is both a must-read for those interested in the twentieth century West and a striking document of a skilled photographer's work.
