Carleton Watkins : the Stanford albums.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanford University. Libraries.

Contributor:

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916.

Stanford University. Libraries.

Landscape photography--West (U.S.)--Exhibitions.

Landscape photography.

West (U.S.)--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

West (U.S.).

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

Watkins, Carleton E.

Stanford University. Libraries--Exhibitions.

Stanford University.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 35 cm

Other Title:

Standford albums

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Cantor Arts Center : Stanford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Apr. 24-Aug. 17, 2014, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Weems, Jason. Landscape photography under pressure.

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916. Photographs. Selections.

ISBN:

9780804792158

0804792151

OCLC:

865537032