Yosemite Album
Yosemite Album
Artist
Carleton E. Watkins
(1829 - 1916)
Date1869
MediumAlbumen prints mounted in presentation album
Dimensionsaverage: 12 1/4 x 8 in. (31.1 x 20.3 cm)
shell: 3 in. × 19 5/8 in. × 22 1/2 in. (7.6 × 49.8 × 57.2 cm)
album: 1 7/8 × 18 1/2 × 21 3/8 in. (4.8 × 47 × 54.3 cm)
shell: 3 in. × 19 5/8 in. × 22 1/2 in. (7.6 × 49.8 × 57.2 cm)
album: 1 7/8 × 18 1/2 × 21 3/8 in. (4.8 × 47 × 54.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.69
Accession number
2006.69
On View
Not on viewLabel TextCarleton Watkins traveled to the Yosemite Valley in 1861 with a wet-plate camera and large, fragile glass plates, taking what would become the first of hundreds of “mammoth-plate” prints of the region. Mammoth plates were so called because the glass plates were the same size as the large final prints, which allowed for outsized photographic prints before the development of enlargers. Some of Watkins's photographs were used to sway President Lincoln to designate Yosemite as the first state park in 1864.
En 1861, Carleton Watkins viajó al valle de Yosemite con una cámara de placa húmeda y grandes placas de vidrio frágil, y tomó las que se convertirían en las primeras de cientos de fotografías “de placa gigante o mamut” de la región. Se llamaban “placas mamut” porque las placas de vidrio eran del mismo tamaño que las grandes impresiones finales, lo que permitía obtener impresiones fotográficas de gran tamaño antes de la llegada de las ampliadoras. Algunas de las fotografías de Watkins se utilizaron para persuadir al presidente Lincoln para que designara Yosemite como el primer parque estatal en 1864.
Markingsfront cover, stamped in gilt: Albert D. Richardson / Yosemite Photographs / 1869.
