In the 1860s Carleton Watkins loaded a team of mules with his mammoth-plate camera and glass negatives and ventured into Yosemite Valley.
19th century American photography
One of the most famous landscape photographs showing the horrible aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death
Business or pleasure? Carlton Watkins could photograph both beautifully.
Carleton Watkins, Eagle Creek, Columbia River
Riis snapped photos of the urban poor during midnight police raids—but only because he cared.
Jacob Riis, “Knee-Pants” at Forty-Five Cents a ...
A stunning look at an important Navajo monument reminds us that we’re basically specks in a vast universe.
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