Yosemite Falls from Glacier Point
1865–66, printed ca. 1875
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1972
Accession Number
1972.643.10
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Yosemite Falls from Glacier** *Carleton E. Watkins 1865–66, printed ca. 187* *Albumen silver print from glass negative Step into the majestic wilds of Yosemite National Park through Carleton E. Watkins' breathtaking, *Yosemite Falls from Glacier*. Captured in 1865–66 from a dramatic overlook, this image showcases the thundering cascade of Yosemite Falls plunging into the valley below, framed by sheer granite cliffs and misty veils of water. Watkins, a pioneering 19th-century photographer, hauled massive cameras and glass plates into the Sierra Nevada to document America's untamed land...
About the Artist
Carleton E. Watkins · 1829–1916
Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916), one of America's pioneering landscape photographers, was born on November 11, 1829, in Oneonta, New York, the eldest of eight children to carpenter John Watkins and innkeeper Julia. Drawn by the Gold Rush, he arrived in San Francisco in 1851 at age 22 alongside childhood friend Collis Huntington, who later became a railroad tycoon. Initially working as a carpenter ...