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Albion River, Mendocino Co. Cal.
Creator
Carleton WatkinsAmerican Photographer · 1829–1916
All works by this person →At twenty, Carleton Watkins headed out to California to make his fortune. After working as a daguerreotype operator in San Jose, he established his own practice and soon made his first visit to the Yosemite Valley. There he made thirty mammoth plate and one hundred stereograph views that were among the first photographs of Yosemite seen in the East. Partly on the strength of Watkins's photographs,
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- negative 1863; print 1868–1870
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- Albumen silver print
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- Photographs
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When creating this composition of the Albion River, Carleton Watkins positioned his camera to emphasize the meadow in the foreground. Behind the boundary created by the fence, the river cuts through deeply forested rolling hills, past a lumber mill shrouded in smoke. The stillness of the water belies the fact that the open ocean was less than a hundred yards to the photographer's left. In the center, windblown trees convey the sense of rugged wilderness that Watkins found characteristic of Mendocino County.
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