Artist: Carleton Watkins (1829 - 1916)
Nationality: American
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Carleton Watkins moved from New York to California at the age of twenty-one. HE worked as a daguerreotypist in San Jose before opening his own studio. Not long after, he made his first of many visits to Yosemite Valley where he produced thirty mammoth plate and one hundred stereograph views of the area. These photographs were the first to be taken of the natural wonders and show on the East coast, prompting Abraham Lincoln to sign the 1864 bill that protected the area. In 1865, Watkins became the official photographer for the California State Geological Survey. He opened a Yosemite Art Gallery in San Francisco in 1867, the cost of which eventually caused his 1874 declaration of bankruptcy. He sold his negatives and gallery to Isaiah Taber who published Watkins’s images under his name.

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Further Artwork and Information:

Carleton E. Watkins (Getty Museum)
Yosemite History: Carleton E. Watkins, photographer
Carleton E Watkins (1849 - 1917) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
The Digital Mirror - Treasures - Carleton E Watkins
Albion River, Mendocino County, California (Getty Museum)
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
Carleton E. Watkins
City Gallery - Carleton E. Watkins
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Watkins (Carleton E.), Mendocino Coast, 1863

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