Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, 1865–66, printed ca. 1876, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 52.2 x 40.6 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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Section, Grizzly Giant, Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, 1865–66, printed ca, 1876, Albumen silver print, glass negative, 52.2 x 40.6 cm, 20, 9/16, x 16, Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins, American, 1829–1916, Watkins, name, views, extraordinarily beautiful Yosemite, Valley, photographed repeatedly, twenty-year period, 1861, time, virtuoso practitioner, difficult wet-collodion, process, using, mammoth, plates, rendered, vastness, landscape, infinite details, unsurpassed scope, clarity
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