Mark Ruwedel
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific #19, Railroad Cut from "Westward the Course of Empire", 2004
Silver print
7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; mount 16 x 20 inches
With Ruwedel's neatly penciled title mount recto, and signature, title, date and AP edition notation mount verso.
With Ruwedel's neatly penciled title mount recto, and signature, title, date and AP edition notation mount verso.
Mark Ruwedel is a photographer who has spent his career documenting the American West. This photograph is from his seminal ongoing series, “Westward the Course of Empire,” a survey of...
Mark Ruwedel is a photographer who has spent his career documenting the American West. This photograph is from his seminal ongoing series, “Westward the Course of Empire,” a survey of the residual landforms created by the numerous railroads built in the American and Canadian West since 1869. The project reflects on notions of “Manifest Destiny” and the American need to push forward at any cost, revealing the dark undercurrent of the declaration to “Go West.”