"Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception examines the signal achievement of this photographic innovator in the context of burgeoning western development and new ways of experiencing the world visually."--Jacket.
For the identification of Mrs. George R. Russell, see RWE, Bosco, Johnson, and Myerson, Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 8, p.ci, n95. A note of Russell's gift to RWE is in uncatalogued documentation of wall hangings at ...
507, 899; Acquired through the generosity of Jon L. Stryker and Richard Rieger: cat. no. 376; Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005: cat. no. 523 ______.
In Focus: Carleton Watkins features approximately fifty of these works, including mammoth plates, stereographs, albumen prints, and cabinet and boudoir cards.
"Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception examines the signal achievement of this photographic innovator in the context of burgeoning western development and new ways of experiencing the world visually."--BOOK JACKET.
Carleton Watkins: Making the West American includes the first history of the birth of the national park concept since pioneering environmental historian Hans Huth’s landmark 1948 “Yosemite: The Story of an Idea.” Watkins’s ...
Collects the photographs of Carleton Watkins that contributed to the argument for creating the National Park Service, along with essays that explore the artist and his work providing context and depth to the images.
Carleton Watkins: Selected Texts and Bibliography
Carleton Watkins: Selected Texts and Bibliography