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Carleton E. Watkins
El-Eachas or three Brothers
1861 (ca)
Albumen silver print
16 3/16 x 20 10/16 ins
George Eastman Museum
LL/33164
Watkins's huge plates capture the detail and awe-inspiring scale and sublime potency of Yosemite, enabling photographers to compete with monumental landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, and Thomas Moran. Watkins's images helped to photographically establish the mountain landscape as an emblem of transcendental idealism by accentuating the energetic attributes of these formations.
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