Yosemite Falls, 2634 ft., 1865-66

Details

CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)
Yosemite Falls, 2634 ft., 1865-66
mammoth-plate albumen print
signed and titled in pencil on original mount
20 5/8 x 15¾in. (52.5 x 40cm.)

Provenance

With Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

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Lot Essay

Fraenkel remarks: '[Watkins] filled his pictures edge to edge with meticulous, near obsessive detail, all of it important. His large prints, the result of prodigious physical effort, have a clarity and luminance that impart a sensation of human vision intensified...the pictures constitute a virtual compendium of the expressive possibilities of light.' (Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861-1874, Fraenkel Gallery, 1989, introduction)

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