Sugar Loaf Islands, Farallons, 1868–69, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 40 x 52.4; Mount: 55.3 x 66.3, Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Watkins's technical virtuosity was honed in Yosemite, first in 1861 and again in 1865-66, when he returned as the official photographer for Josiah Whitney's California State Geological Survey. By the end of his extended stay he had mastered the manipulation of the cumbersome camera (three feet long when extended) and the mammoth glass plates, which had to be sensitized and developed in a dark room tent, often with water hauled by mules over long distances
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