Carleton Watkins : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Main entry:

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, photographer.

Title & Author:

Carleton Watkins : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Publication:

Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [1997]
©1997

Description:

143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series:

In focus

Notes:
Foreword / John Walsh -- Introduction / Peter E. Palmquist -- Looking West: the photographs of Carleton Watkins / David Featherstone, Tom Fels, Weston Naef, Peter E. Palmquist, David Robertson, Amy Rule.

Summary:

The career of the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) spanned more than fifty years. It is his giant photographs of Yosemite, from the "best general view," that most effectively articulate his artistic vision.
The J. Paul Getty Museum holds more than fourteen hundred pictures by Watkins, making him the best-represented nineteenth-century photographer in the collection. In Focus: Carleton Watkins features approximately fifty of these works, including mammoth plates, stereographs, albumen prints, and cabinet and boudoir cards. The plates are accompanied by commentaries written by Peter E. Palmquist, an independent scholar of the history of photography. Mr. Palmquist, along with David Featherstone, Tom Fels, Weston Naef, David Robertson, and Amy Rule, were participants in a 1996 colloquium on Watkins and his career. An edited transcript of their discussion and a chronological overview of Watkins's life and art follow the plate section.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0892363991 (paperback)
9780892363995 (paperback)

Subject:

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916.
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 Museums and collections.
Watkins, Carleton E.
J. Paul Getty Museum Photograph collections.
J. Paul Getty Museum Collections de photographies.
J. Paul Getty Museum.
Malibu Beach <Calif.> / J. Paul Getty Museum.
Photography, Artistic.
Outdoor photography.
Photograph collections California Los Angeles.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie à l'extérieur.
Photographies Collectionneurs et collections Californie Los Angeles.
Collections de photographies Californie Los Angeles.
art photography.
Photograph collections.
Fotografie
Sammlung
Foto's.
Photograph collections California Malibu.
West (U.S.) Pictorial works.
États-Unis (Ouest) Ouvrages illustrés.
California Los Angeles.
West United States.

Form/genre:

Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.

Added entries:

J. Paul Getty Museum.
In focus (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191442
Call No.: ID TR652.W38; ID:97-B2338
Status: Available

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