[Coast View off Mendocino]

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[Coast View off Mendocino]

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Carleton Watkins

American Photographer · 1829–1916

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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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Date: negative 1863; print about 1866
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

The coastline along Mendocino was more rugged than any previously encountered by Carleton Watkins, who had traveled by schooner up the coast to the town in the fall of 1863 at the invitation of a lumber mill owner. This image of fog clinging along the edges of jagged bluffs reveals his concern for situations where the static and dynamic elements of nature overlap, a reoccurring theme in his work.

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