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"Inverted in the Tide Stand the Grey Rocks."
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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- July 1861
- Medium
- Albumen glass stereograph
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
To enliven his views, Watkins incorporated reflections whenever possible, and he was one of the first photographers to do so systematically over many decades. Watkins was a master of the reflected image, and this example is one of the best of the genre. He was an avid reader, and he occasionally made literary references when titling his work. In the name for this stereograph, the gray rocks refer to a line from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1824 poem "An April Day."
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