Carleton Watkins: Making the West Amer..., Green, Tyler

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Carleton Watkins: Making the West Amer..., Green, Tyler. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Author:Green, Tyler. Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. Can't find what you're looking for? Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us Shop by Price $10.34 $10.35 - $12.34 $12.35 - $14.34 $14.35 - $16.34 $16.35+ Shop pages Home page Payment Delivery Customer Service About the seller Need help? Send an eBay message Newsletter Add World of Books to your favourites and receive email newsletters about special promotions! General Interest Carleton Watkins: Making the West American Product Details: Category: Books ISBN: 0520287983 Title: Carleton Watkins: Making the West American The Fast Free Shipping Author: Green, Tyler Publisher: University of California Press Year Published: 2018 Number of Pages: 536 Book Binding: Hardback Prizes: Book Condition: GOOD SKU: CIN0520287983G Item description "A fascinating and indispensable book."Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing,2018 California Book Awards Carleton Watkins (18291916) is widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as news of the Unions disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studios horrific photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkinss work tied the West to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkinss pictures, Congress would pass legislation, later signed by Abraham Lincoln, that preserved Yosemite as the prototypical national park, the first such act of landscape preservation in the world. Carleton Watkins : Making the West American includes the first history of the birth of the national park concept since pioneering environmental historian Hans Huths landmark 1948 Yosemite: The Story of an Idea. Watkinss photographs helped shape Americas idea of the West, and helped make the West a full participant in the nation. His pictures of California, Oregon, and Nevada, as well as modern-day Washington, Utah, and Arizona, not only introduced entire landscapes to America but were important to the development of American business, finance, agriculture, government policy, and science. Watkinss clients, customers, and friends were a veritable whos who of Americas Gilded Age, and his connections with notable figures such as Collis P. Huntington, John and Jessie Benton Fremont, Eadweard Muybridge, Frederick Billings, John Muir, Albert Bierstadt, and Asa Gray reveal how the Gilded Age helped make todays America. Drawing on recent scholarship and fresh archival discoveries, Tyler Green reveals how an artist didnt just reflect his time, but acted as an agent of influence. This telling of Watkinss story will fascinate anyone interested in American history; the West; and how art and artists impacted the development of American ideas, industry, landscape, conservation, and politics. 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