Let us start with two images, identically titled Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada. The first (Fig. 1) is a (recently) celebrated photograph made by Timothy O'Sullivan in 1868 that functions with special insistence within the art historical construction of nineteenth-century landscape photography. The second (Fig. 2) is a lithographic copy of the first, produced for the publication of Clarence King's Systematic Geology in 1878.
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