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Carleton Watkins

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Carleton Watkins and Photography’s Romance with the American West

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian November 9, 2018April 14, 2022

How do you tell the story of an artist whose archive was destroyed? Tyler Green’s new book focuses on a major figure in the early history of photography.

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How Photographs Have Shaped Our View of the National Parks

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 12, 2016

There were two prominent types of landscape photographs in the 1860s: Civil War battlefields strewn with the dead, and sweeping vistas of the West.

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How the West Was Won by a 19th-Century Photographer

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 8, 2014May 8, 2014

Back in the 1860s, the capital of the United States was glimpsing two visions of its country: one of brutality, and one of beauty. The latter was captured by Carleton Watkins in his photographs of an untouched wilderness in the West.

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Seeing Double: When a Muybridge Isn’t a Muybridge

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 23, 2010

In a weeklong series, critic and journalist Tyler Green is exploring the attribution of some of Eadweard Muybridge’s images and the possibility that they were in fact from other photographers, such as Muybridge’s friend and rival Carleton Watkins.

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