Exhibitions
Carleton Watkins: From Where the View Looked Best (February 15 to June 4, 2000)
- The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles), February 15 to June 4, 2000
Not currently on view
"Agassiz" Column, Yosemite
Carleton Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)
American
1878
Albumen silver print
92.XM.81.4
12.5 × 12.5 cm (4 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
This compelling photograph presents an austere view of Agassiz Column, a seemingly precarious monument in Yosemite. Carleton Watkins achieved the round
Watkins, Carleton E. and Weston Naef, ed. Carleton Watkins: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: The Museum, 1997).