Fraenkel Gallery's 40th anniversary exhibition and book is an unconventional slice of photography’s rich history over the past 180 years to the present day.
"Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point, 1865-1866" by Carleton Watkins. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lent by Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.
Maker: Carlton E. Watkins (1829 - 1916) Born: USA Active: USA Medium: albumen print Size: 11.5 in x 7.75 in Location: USA Object No. 2009.071 Shelf: C-24 Publication: Era of Exploration, The Rise Of Landscape Photography in the American West 1860-1885. by Weston J. Naef. Albright-Knox Art Gallery/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, pl 7 Carleton Watkins, Photographer of the American West, by Peter Palmquist, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1983, pg 30 Nineteenth Century Photographs at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1989, pg 177 Bonnett and Bonnett, Isaiah West Taber, A Photographic Legacy, Windgate Press, Sausalito, 2004, pg 108 Images of the West, Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880, Musee d'art americain giverny, 2007, pg 17 Eugene Ostroff, Western Views and Eastern Visions, Smithsonian Instituttion, Washington, D.C., 1981, pg 80, #68A Other Collections: University of New Mexico Art Museum, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Denver Public Library Provenance: Klotz Sirmon Gallery Rank: 1000 Notes: Printed after 1875 by Isaiah W Taber from Watkins original negative. To view our archive organized by themes and subjects, visit: OUR COLLECTIONS For information about reproducing this image, visit: THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE
Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) was the consummate photographer of the American West. This exhibition features thirty-six photographs that helped advance the notion that Yosemite was a Pacific paradise, a bit of Eden in North America.
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#1155 - The Vernal and Nevada Falls from Glacier Point
How one pioneering photographer captured the American West before its ruin—and before his own.
The Franciscan Missions of California album contains 35 albumen prints taken by Carleton E. Watkins circa 1876-1882. Watkins probably began photographing the missions while returning from a trip to Southern California in 1876, during which he also photographed scenes along the newly constructed Southern Pacific Railroad line. The album is believed to be the earliest general photographic collection produced of the California Missions, and includes photographs of most of the missions found in the state....
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Carleton Watkins was the first to truly capture the colossal beauty of the Columbia River Gorge Northwest. He was also a huge reason why we have National Parks.
The definitive photographer of the American west made his name with these photographs of California’s Yosemite Valley, currently on show at New York’s Met. The series inspired President Lincoln to sign a bill preserving the valley’s beauty and laying the foundations for the US National Park system
Cathedral Towers, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Albumen silver print from glass negative
Maker: Carleton E. Watkins (1829 - 1916) Born: USA Active: USA Medium: albumen print Size: 3.75 in x 5.75 in Location: USA Object No. 2010.313 Shelf: C-21 Publication: Julia Van Haaften, From Talbot to Stieglitz, Thames and Hudson, NY, 1982, pl 47 Era of Exploration, The Rise Of Landscape Photography in the American West 1860-1885. by Weston J. Naef. Albright-Knox Art Gallery/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, pg 38 Jareckie, American Photography: 1840-1900, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 1976, pl 49 Fire and Ive, Treasures from the Photographic Collection of Frederic Church at Olana, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2002, pl 34 Other Collections: Boston Public Library, J. Paul Getty Museum Notes: the man holding the rifle is Galen Clark, the first superintendent of Yosemite National Park To view our archive organized by themes and subjects, visit: OUR COLLECTIONS For information about reproducing this image, visit: THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE
Did you know that a single unknown photographer helped change the course of history for Yosemite with his photos back in 1861? The video above tells the
Laure Albin-Guillot, Khalik Allah, Roswell Angier, Dieter Appelt, Diane Arubs, Arthur S. Aubry, Adam Bartos, Irene Bayer, Ferenc Berko, Machiel Botman, Pierre Boucher, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Josef Breitenbach, Alexey Brodovitch, Bill Burke, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Harry Callahan, Roger Catherineau, Chargesheimer, Ken Collins, Lois Conner, Pierre Cordier, Eugene Cuvelier, Robert D'alessandro, Bruce Davidson, Frantisek Drtikol, Jane Edwards, Josef Ehm, Eliot Elisofon, T. Lux Feininger, Christiane Feser, Gerard Petrus Fieret, Allen Frame, Robert Frank, Leonard Freed, Masahisa Fukase, Jaromir Funke, Nan Goldin, Richard Gordon, Ed Grazda, Stanley Greenberg, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Frank Jay Haynes, Dave Heath, Kenneth Heilbron, James Herbert, Lewis Hine, Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Hujar, William Henry Jackson, Pierre Jahan, Kenneth Josephson, Andre Kertesz, Chris Killip, Francois Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Fritz Kuhr, William Larson, Saul Leiter, Gita Lenz, Helen Levitt, Charles Lindsay, Eli Lotar, Joshua Lutz, Mary Ellen Mark, Michael Martone, Daniel Masclet, Herbert Matter, Roger Mayne, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Klea McKenna, Ray Metzker, Jean Moral, Jun Morinaga, Daido Moriyama, Eadweard Muybridge, Jean Painleve, Gordon Parks, Roger Parry, Irving Penn, Cranston Ritchie, William D. Richardson, Christopher Russell, Jaroslav Rossler, Aaron Rothman, Tomio Seike, Jose Maria Sert, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, W. Eugene Smith, Bohumil Stastny, Edward Steichen, Eduard J. Steichen, Andre Steiner, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Karl Struss, Jean-Pierre Sudre, Josef Sudek, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Joseph Szabo, Maurice Tabard, Edmund Teske, Raoul Ubac, Umbo, Carleton E. Watkins, Dan Weiner, Lionel Wendt, Clarence H. White, Minor White, Emma Wilcox, Garry Winogrand, Yelena Yemchuk, Yoshio Yokoyama, Fred Zinnemann
Laure Albin-Guillot, Khalik Allah, Roswell Angier, Dieter Appelt, Diane Arubs, Arthur S. Aubry, Adam Bartos, Irene Bayer, Ferenc Berko, Machiel Botman, Pierre Boucher, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Josef Breitenbach, Alexey Brodovitch, Bill Burke, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Harry Callahan, Roger Catherineau, Chargesheimer, Ken Collins, Lois Conner, Pierre Cordier, Eugene Cuvelier, Robert D'alessandro, Bruce Davidson, Frantisek Drtikol, Jane Edwards, Josef Ehm, Eliot Elisofon, T. Lux Feininger, Christiane Feser, Gerard Petrus Fieret, Allen Frame, Robert Frank, Leonard Freed, Masahisa Fukase, Jaromir Funke, Nan Goldin, Richard Gordon, Ed Grazda, Stanley Greenberg, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Frank Jay Haynes, Dave Heath, Kenneth Heilbron, James Herbert, Lewis Hine, Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Hujar, William Henry Jackson, Pierre Jahan, Kenneth Josephson, Andre Kertesz, Chris Killip, Francois Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Fritz Kuhr, William Larson, Saul Leiter, Gita Lenz, Helen Levitt, Charles Lindsay, Eli Lotar, Joshua Lutz, Mary Ellen Mark, Michael Martone, Daniel Masclet, Herbert Matter, Roger Mayne, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Klea McKenna, Ray Metzker, Jean Moral, Jun Morinaga, Daido Moriyama, Eadweard Muybridge, Jean Painleve, Gordon Parks, Roger Parry, Irving Penn, Cranston Ritchie, William D. Richardson, Christopher Russell, Jaroslav Rossler, Aaron Rothman, Tomio Seike, Jose Maria Sert, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, W. Eugene Smith, Bohumil Stastny, Edward Steichen, Eduard J. Steichen, Andre Steiner, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Karl Struss, Jean-Pierre Sudre, Josef Sudek, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Joseph Szabo, Maurice Tabard, Edmund Teske, Raoul Ubac, Umbo, Carleton E. Watkins, Dan Weiner, Lionel Wendt, Clarence H. White, Minor White, Emma Wilcox, Garry Winogrand, Yelena Yemchuk, Yoshio Yokoyama, Fred Zinnemann
Carleton Watkins was renowned for his majestic images of Yosemite, which he first visited in 1861, and for the unsurpassed artistry of his 18 x 22-inch mam...
Watkins #13 - Bridal Veil Fall in Springtime, Yosemite
