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[Pacific Coast View] / [Gibson Beach, Pt. Lobos, Monterey Coast]
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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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- 1880–1883
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- Albumen silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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The sandy beach, rocky cliffs, rolling hills, and cypress trees of Monterey County provided a splendid landscape for Carleton Watkins during his excursion to photograph the San Carlos Borromeo mission at Carmel. This view presents Gibson Beach, located at the southernmost edge of Point Lobos, on a sunny afternoon devoid of fog. The clarity of Watkins's image allows every detail of the rocky coast to be deciphered, from the delicate cypress trees lining the distant ridge to the wet sand in the foreground.
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