Carleton Watkins : the Stanford albums
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| Call number | Status |
|---|---|
| TR660.5 .S73 2014 F |
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Creators/Contributors
- Corporate Author
- Stanford University. Libraries, author.
- Contributor
- Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 photographer.
- Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, host institution.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
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- Foreword / John L. Hennessy
- Introduction / Connie Wolf
- Notes on Carleton Watkins / Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell
- Notes on process / George Philip LeBourdais
- Notes on the Stanford albums / John E. Mustain
- Selections from the Stanford albums. Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862-76)
- Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865-66)
- Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867 and 1870)
- Essays. Landscape photography under pressure : Carleton Watkins at Malakoff / Jason D. Weems
- Lost in the city / Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson
- Watkins's salvage operation / Elizabeth Hutchinson
- Malakoff Diggins, North Bloomfield, Nevada Co., Cal. / Robert H. Dawson
- A most "uncanny" place : Watkins's view of Devil's Canyon / Corey Keller
- Seabirds : silent no more / Stephen Palumbi
- Looking back at Watkins / James Clifford
- Reflections on Mount Watkins and other incompletions / George Philip LeBourdais
- The sentinels of Yosemite / Barton H. Thompson Jr.
- Ecologies : trees, fires, and photographs / George Philip LeBourdais
- Written in water : Carleton Watkins's West / David M. Kennedy
- Watkins and singularity / Alexander Nemerov
- Overlooking the Columbia / Erik Steiner
- How a historian reads a picture / Richard White
- The complete Stanford albums. Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862-76)
- Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865-66)
- Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867 and 1870)
- Checklist
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Credits.
- Summary
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Born in upstate New York in 1829, Carleton Watkins ventured west in 1848 to strike it rich. Instead of prospecting for gold, Watkins acquired a talent for photography. Through the 1860s and 1870s, Watkins charted the remote American West, and masterfully captured the vast scale and spirit of the Pacific Northwest. Among his most iconic photographs are the dramatic waterfalls, peaks, and valleys of Yosemite Valley. So moving were these images of the Valley that they were instrumental in convincing the 38th U.S. Congress and President Abraham Lincoln to pass the Yosemite Act of 1864, the first official step toward preserving the region and creating a blueprint for America's National Park System. Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums presents over 150 images from three of Watkins's albums - Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865-66), Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862-76), and Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867 and 1870) - from the Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. These images represent the definitive collection of Watkins's highest achievements. In addition to the complete albums, the book also features fifteen essays by renowned scholars of the American West, including David M. Kennedy, Alexander Nemerov, and Richard White. Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums accompanies an ambitious exhibition of the same name, on view at the Cantor Arts Center from April through August 2014. June 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the congressional act that preserved Yosemite Valley and launched the national park system in the United States. These photographs - feats of innovation and technology at the dawn of photography - evince the beauty, power, and persuasiveness of the great American landscape.
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- Publisher's description
- Included work
- Weems, Jason Landscape photography under pressure.
- Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 Photographs. Selections.
Subjects
- Subjects
- Landscape photography > West (U.S.) > Exhibitions.
- West (U.S.) > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
- Yosemite Valley (Calif.) > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
- Pacific Coast (Calif.) > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
- Oregon > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
- Columbia River > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
- Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 > Exhibitions.
- Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives > Photograph collections > Exhibitions.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2014
- Copyright date
- 2014
- Title variation
- Stanford albums
- Note
- Reproduces the entirety of the three mammoth plate albums, Photographs of the Pacific Coast, Photographs of Yosemite Valley, and Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon, held by the Stanford University Libraries.
- Issued in connection with an exhibition held Apr. 24-Aug. 17, 2014, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
- ISBN
- 9780804792158
- 0804792151
- 0804792151
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