Untitled (Miners and Log Cabin)
Carleton Watkins
1856
Medium
Ambrotype
Dimensions
11 × 14 cm (4 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
250127
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...