Photographies

First Over Everest

photographer unknown

1933
23.5 x 15.5 cm
DS 486 E8 H84

First Over Everest: The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933 brings together the technologies of aviation and photography to exert a sense of control over a sublime landscape. The book’s photographic illustrations demonstrate photography’s usefulness for circulating knowledge. At the same time, the variety of ways the photographs are manipulated within the book's pages suggest an effort to experiment with methods of producing meaning with photographic images. Examine the book’s different forms of photography, and consider which ones are most useful for circulating knowledge. 

A full scan of the book is available through the Internet Archive.