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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How one pioneering photographer captured the American West before its ruin—and before his own.

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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

While Abraham Lincoln was dealing with the Civil War, Carleton Watkins was leading a mule train around the Yosemite Valley, photographing some of the most spectacular images ever made of the American West. In fact, some of those photographs helped convince Congress to preserve the Yosemite Valley. The bill that they passed was signed by […]

"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.

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Sentinel Rock, rising 3,270 feet to the heavens from the base of the Yosemite Valley, was one of the most difficult natural monuments to photograph. On the...

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 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

Cathedral Towers, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Albumen silver print from glass negative

In the summer of 1917, three men had a collective vision. Beneath the 300-foot-tall ceiling of an airy cathedral of ancient trees in Humboldt’s Bull Creek Flats, soft beds of redwood sorrel underfoot and golden rays beaming through the canopy overhead, they found the inspiration to change the course of history.

Behold, the power of maps! Maps are amazing. They can tell us so much with just one image. Historical maps serve as a visual trip to the past, documenting ...

An image of Yosemite National Park from the Library of Congress. Photo: Library Of Congress/Courtesy

Photographs of a shabby capital struggling to escape from the seventies recession.