Feature story: Exploring America Feb 9, 2008
There are also some works by other artists -- such as grand black-and-white Yosemite photos by Carleton Watkins -- and period artifacts. One glass case holds stereoscopic views of Yosemite and playing cards with Yellowstone images, as well as an 1899 Baedeker's guidebook. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Man gone west Nov 6, 2007
They revisited sites where early survey and landscape photographers Ansel Adams, Edweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins and Edward Weston had done work. Klett and Wolfe then used co-ordinates to replicate the exact viewpoints of the earlier photographers. (University News, MO)
Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Others Jul 30, 2007
Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Others - Cantor Arts Center Stanford University - absolutearts ... "Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Others" 2007-07-25 until 2007-10-28 Stanford, CA, USA United States of America ... The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces the exhibition Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard... (AbsoluteArts.com)
'Yosemite' Art of an American Icon Oct 12, 2006
Early photographers such as Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge lugged their primitive equipment up steep trails with teams of mules, creating what were among the first landscapes in the medium. As these images got back to the East Coast, where they were so outside the realm of people's experience that they seemed almost a figment of the imagination, Yosemite soon supplanted Niagara Falls as the country's most awesome natural wonder. (Los Angeles Times)
The Getty Opens Up to a Slice of America PHOTOS Oct 9, 2006
From the very beginning, the collection of photographs boasted the nation's most extensive holdings of works by 19th-century masters such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray, William Henry Fox Talbot and Carleton Watkins. Over the next decade the museum developed a strategy of collecting selected artists' work in depth, including 20th-century artists Eug. (Los Angeles Times)
Museum shows rare photos of Yosemite's landscape Jul 17, 2006
The rare images are contact prints made between 1861 and 1880 from glass-plate negatives by famous photographers of the time, which include Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge and Charles Weed. The photographers used 18-by-22 inch "mammoth" format glass negatives to make images. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Earthly Views Jul 7, 2006
" She picks a few of her photographic influences from a long list, naming pioneers such as Alfred Steiglitz and Carleton Watkins, known for his large format landscapes of the 19th century American West. "I also admire the work of cinematographers, Arthur C. Miller in particular," Ms. Connally says. "One of his great contributions was John Ford's 'How Green Was My Valley. I've always watched movies pretty religiously and every single frame of that film is a work of compositional art. (Bordentwo Register News, NJ)
