Carleton Watkins : the Stanford albums.

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Author / Creator:Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916.
Imprint:Stanford, CA : Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts : Stanford University Press, 2014.
©2014
Description:280 pages : illustrations ; 29 x 37 cm
Language:English
Subject:Watkins, Carleton E., -- 1829-1916.
Watkins, Carleton E., -- 1829-1916. -- Photographs of the Pacific Coast -- Exhibitions.
Watkins, Carleton E., -- 1829-1916. -- Photographs of Yosemite Valley -- Exhibitions.
Watkins, Carleton E., -- 1829-1916. -- Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon -- Exhibitions.
Stanford University. -- Libraries.
Stanford University. -- Libraries. -- Department of Special Collections and University Archives -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions.
Landscape photography -- West (U.S.) -- Exhibitions.
Photograph collections
Landscape photography.
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.
United States, West.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9988595
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Varying Form of Title:Stanford albums
Other uniform titles:Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916. Photographs of the Pacific Coast.
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916. Photographs of Yosemite Valley.
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916. Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon.
Other authors / contributors:Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.
ISBN:0804792151
9780804792158
Notes: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.
" ... published on the occasion of the exhibition ... held at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, April 24-August 17, 2014"--Colophon.
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Review by Choice Review

Students of early Pacific Coast photography will find this handsomely published volume of some of New York native Carleton Watkins's work engaging. Watkins's career is well-known. This volume acknowledges both the success he enjoyed as a landscape photographer and the difficulties he experienced in managing his commercial and financial endeavors. Though these difficulties were a burden he seldom escaped, this volume bears testament to his skills as a photographer and chronicler of the changing landscape of the Far West. This is the catalogue for a 2014 exhibition at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center of three bound volumes of Watkins's mammoth photographs of 1861-76, held by Stanford University Libraries: Photographs of the Pacific Coast, Photographs of the Yosemite Valley, and Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon. This volume presents the publication for the first time of all 156 strikingly beautiful, aesthetically composed, and historically significant images. The images reveal the nuances of nature along the Pacific Coast and the frequent presence of the emerging intrusion of industrial civilization. Fourteen essays complement the photographs and provide context for, perspective on, and interpretation of the albums and their photographs. --Phillip D. Thomas, Wichita State University

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