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Oswego Iron Works, Willamette River
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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- 1867
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Looming at the end of a short road is a simple building with stacks of lumber lying about that indicate its recent construction. Two gentlemen observe the facility from a distance, looking down toward the river. When viewed without the right-hand panel that includes the river, the men appear to be simply overlooking a modest plateau. Although this image was created as the left half of a two-part panorama, it easily stands on its own as a result of its compositional integrity.
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