In Focus: Carleton Watkins: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus)

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In Focus: Carleton Watkins: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus)
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• Breathtaking visuals in this Collection
  Carleton Watkins's fifty-some year career has left him recognition as one the greatest American photographers of the nineteenth century. The photographs shown in The Art of Perception clearly show why. Without saying Watkins was ahead of his time because of the sophisticating and arresting images he produced with a camera, it can be said that few, if any, of his contemporaries could rival his work. In the Art of Perception, the reader will have the privelage to be psychologically compelled by the world from... more info

• Beautiful Well Researched Needed Resource
  Carleton Watkins is an overlooked figure in the history of American photography--Artistically we could not have wanted for more in someone recording the "wilds" of the West. Beautiful photographs of San Francisco and the Northwest's industrial beginnings, and timeless representation of Yosemite's natural wonder.

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