Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary St
415.981.2661
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Carleton Watkins, The North Dome [Fully Reflected], 1865-66, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery
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Nov 5, 2009 – Dec 30, 2009
Tuesdays–Fridays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of the time. In 1864 his images of Yosemite played a part in convincing Congress to set aside the land as a national park. Even today, his strikingly crisp images give a palpable sense of the remote locations he photographed, often trekking miles with loads of equipment. Other photographs offer a glimpse of San Francisco at the beginning of its development, at once unfamiliar and recognizable. Most of Watkin's life's work was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and the photographs on view in Discoveries are a rare group of images recently discovered in a small New England library.
