Mirror Lake, Valley of the Yosemite
Eadweard Muybridge British and American
Printer Bradley and Rulofson
Printer Henry W. Bradley American
Not on view
In 1872 Muybridge spent six months photographing Yosemite with a mammoth-plate camera (a tool that accommodated large glass negatives). He created stunning views intended to rival in both size and aesthetic quality Carleton Watkins’s earlier images, an example of which is on view nearby. In advance of his trip, Muybridge issued a prospectus to promote the series, offering forty prints for one hundred dollars to subscribers, among them the artist Albert Bierstadt and Tavernier’s later patron Tiburcio Parrott. The final fifty-three-page catalogue was published in 1873 and its popularity may have encouraged Tavernier—who later collaborated with Muybridge on the development of the zoopraxiscope—to visit and paint the valley.
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