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Title: Carleton Watkins by Doug Nickel ISBN: 0-8109-4102-3 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Breathtaking visuals in this Collection
Comment: Carleton Watkins's fifty-some year career has left him recognition as one the greatest American photographers of the nineteenth century. The photographs shown in The Art of Perception clearly show why. Without saying Watkins was ahead of his time because of the sophisticating and arresting images he produced with a camera, it can be said that few, if any, of his contemporaries could rival his work. In the Art of Perception, the reader will have the privelage to be psychologically compelled by the world from the visual standpoint of this obscure individual. In this book, Watkins's innovation as a photographer shows the developing western world while at the same time creating an unparalleled visual experience for the viewers through more than one-hundred of his best photos, including some never-before seen or reproduced. Essays by Douglas R. Nickel also explain some of the subjects and objects that Watkins researched and photographed.
Travelling through the western United States, Watkins captured some of the most breathtaking pictures of Yosemite, San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada, and more. In my personal opinion, it is almost impossible to dislike any of the pictures collected in The Art of Perception. I must admit, however, that I have a personal taste for landscapes and documentary style photos of young America's development, especially ones as lush in detail as Watkins's are. More than anything, I loved the photographs that Watkins shot showing nature alone, untouched by any progression of America's buildup. As the viewer, it is impossible to prepare for the overwhelming rush from the elevated sensation of visual contingency created by Watkins's vision. Watkins's work not only captured my attention for these simple facts, but also educated me in the importance of the man as a very important historical figure in recording the growth of young American and as an innovator for the way we view photography today.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful Well Researched Needed Resource
Comment: Carleton Watkins is an overlooked figure in the history of American photography--Artistically we could not have wanted for more in someone recording the "wilds" of the West. Beautiful photographs of San Francisco and the Northwest's industrial beginnings, and timeless representation of Yosemite's natural wonder.
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Title: Walker Evans by Jeff L. Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, Mia Fineman ISBN: 0691050783 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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Title: The Family of Man by Edward Steichen, Carl Sandburg ISBN: 0870703412 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Diane Arbus: Revelations by Diane Arbus ISBN: 0375506209 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind ISBN: 0743255453 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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