Artist: Carleton E. Watkins
Date: 1861
Museum: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, United States)
Technique: Photograph
Carleton Watkins became nationally renowned for the spectacular series of mammoth-plate photographs he made of Yosemite Valley in 1861. On that trip, and on his seven subsequent visits to the valley, Watkins brought with him an immense, custom-made camera that was capable of exposing 18-by-22-inch glass plates. Though unwieldy, particularly because they had to be sensitized and processed in the field, these mammoth-plate negatives allowed Watkins to capture the vastness and grandeur of Yosemite in exceptional detail.In the 19th century, Yosemite was often seen as a foil for San Francisco, an Edenic alternative to the dirty and congested city. Watkins
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