The Lower Yosemite Fall, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal., No. 1069 from the series "Watkins' Pacific Coast"
Carleton Watkins
1861/76
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 7.7 × 7.8 cm (3 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Card: 8.7 × 17.5 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
stereograph (albumen)
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145380
About the Artist
Carleton Watkins · 1829–1916
Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) was an American photographer whose majestic landscape photographs of the American West, particularly of Yosemite Valley, rank among the most important images in the history of photography. Born in Oneonta, New York, he moved to California during the Gold Rush era and learned photography in San Francisco in the late 1850s. In 1861, Watkins made his first trip to Yosemi...