Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, Carleton E. Watkins, 1865–66, printed ca. 1876

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Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, 1865–66, printed ca. 1876, Albumen silver print from glass negative, x cm. (20 9/16 x 16 in.), Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Watkins made his name with views of the extraordinarily beautiful Yosemite Valley, which he photographed repeatedly over a twenty-year period, beginning in 1861. By that time, he was a virtuoso practitioner of the difficult wet-collodion process using 'mammoth' glass plates, which rendered the vastness of the landscape and its infinite details with unsurpassed scope and clarity

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