Carleton Watkins : the complete mammoth photographs / Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis ; with contributions by Michael Hargraves, Jack von Euw, and Jennifer A. Watts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916.

Contributor:

Naef, Weston J., 1942-

Hult-Lewis, Christine.

J. Paul Getty Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916.

Landscape photography--California--Exhibitions.

Landscape photography.

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

Watkins, Carleton E.

View cameras.

California--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

California.

View cameras--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xxv, 572 pages : illustrations, maps ; 33 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2011]

Summary:

This is a catalogue raisonne presenting 1,273 photos, three to a page, with descriptions; only about 300 have been previously reproduced or exhibited. Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) was one of the premier photographers of the West, but the extent of his work was not discovered until the 1970s. The glass plates he used to produce his images were "mammoth"--measuring 18x22 inches. This volume, which is also mammoth (10x13"), represents many years of work by editors Naef (curator emeritus, photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum) and Hult-Lewis, an independent scholar based in San Francisco. They have documented Watkins' work from collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Bancroft Library at the U. of California, Berkeley, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and numerous smaller collections. After a section devoted to Watkins' early development as a photographer, arrangement is by locale or subject matter, including Yosemite Valley, San Francisco, the Pacific coast, the California missions, railroads and agriculture, and mining, among other themes. Each body of work is supported by an essay written by the editors and others, as well as maps and other images. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Becoming a professional picture maker / Christine Hult-Lews

The great Yosemite Valley and related pictures / Weston Naef

San Francisco / Jack von Euw

The Pacific Coast / Weston Naef

South, East, and North of San Francisco Bay / Christine Hult-Lewis and Weston Naef

The California Missions project / Jennifer A. Watts

Picturing the topographical landscape / Weston Naef

Railroads and agriculture / Jennifer A. Watts

Mining pictures / Christine Hult-Lewis

Pictureing other subjects / Weston Naef

Appendix A: The Isaiah W. Taber Inventory / Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis

Appendix B: Watkins signatures and imprints / Weston Naef with Michael Hargraves.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781606060056

1606060058

OCLC:

702647646