Carleton Watkins : the Stanford albums
Abstract/Contents
- Table of contents
- Foreword / John L. Hennessy -- Introduction / Connie Wolf -- Notes on Carleton Watkins / Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell -- Notes on process / George Philip LeBourdais -- Notes on the Stanford albums / John E. Mustain -- Selections from the Stanford albums. Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862-76) -- Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865-66) -- Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867 and 1870) -- Essays. Landscape photography under pressure : Carleton Watkins at Malakoff / Jason D. Weems -- Lost in the city / Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson -- Watkins's salvage operation / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- Malakoff Diggins, North Bloomfield, Nevada Co., Cal. / Robert H. Dawson -- A most "uncanny" place : Watkins's view of Devil's Canyon / Corey Keller -- Seabirds : silent no more / Stephen Palumbi -- Looking back at Watkins / James Clifford -- Reflections on Mount Watkins and other incompletions / George Philip LeBourdais -- The sentinels of Yosemite / Barton H. Thompson Jr. -- Ecologies : trees, fires, and photographs / George Philip LeBourdais -- Written in water : Carleton Watkins's West / David M. Kennedy -- Watkins and singularity / Alexander Nemerov -- Overlooking the Columbia / Erik Steiner -- How a historian reads a picture / Richard White -- The complete Stanford albums. Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862-76) -- Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865-66) -- Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867 and 1870) -- Checklist -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Credits.
Description
| Alternative title | Stanford albums |
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| Type of resource | text |
| Form | print; unmediated; volume |
| Extent | 280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 x 37 cm |
| Place | California |
| Place | Stanford, CA |
| Publisher | Cantor Arts Center |
| Copyright date | 2014; ©2014 |
| Publication date | 2014; [2014] |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Stanford University, Libraries, | |
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| Photographer | Watkins, Carleton E, 1829-1916 | |
| Host institution | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University |
Subjects
| Subject | Watkins, Carleton E, 1829-1916 > Exhibitions |
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| Subject | Stanford University., Libraries., Department of Special Collections and University Archives > Photograph collections > Exhibitions |
| Subject | Landscape photography > West (U.S.) > Exhibitions |
| Subject | West (U.S.) > Pictorial works > Exhibitions |
| Subject | Yosemite Valley (Calif.) > Pictorial works > Exhibitions |
| Subject | Pacific Coast (Calif.) > Pictorial works > Exhibitions |
| Subject | Oregon > Pictorial works > Exhibitions |
| Subject | Columbia River > Pictorial works > Exhibitions |
| Genre | Bibliography |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Still image |
Bibliographic information
| Note | 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. |
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| Note | Issued in connection with an exhibition held Apr. 24-Aug. 17, 2014, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| ISBN | 9780804792158, 0804792151 |
| LCCN | 2014381301 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/fv739rn1308 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
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