View from the Sentinel Dome, Yosemite

Carleton E. Watkins American

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Carleton Watkins made his name with views of Yosemite Valley, which he photographed repeatedly over a twenty-year period, beginning in 1861. By that time, he was a virtuoso practitioner of the difficult wet-collodion process using "mammoth" glass plates, which rendered the vastness of the landscape and its infinite details with unsurpassed scope and clarity. During a visit to Yosemite in 1865-66, Watkins ascended the Sentinel Dome. He made a series of three photographs of this unparalleled view, each an integral, self-sufficient picture. When seen together, they form a broad and encompassing embrace of the valley.

View from the Sentinel Dome, Yosemite, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

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1989.1084.1

View from the Sentinel Dome, Yosemite, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Albumen silver prints from glass negatives
View from the Sentinel Dome, Yosemite, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Albumen silver prints from glass negatives
View from the Sentinel Dome, Yosemite, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

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