From Getty.edu :
Carleton Watkins and the Element of Time
Weston Naef, senior curator, Department of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, traces how Watkins made time itself an element of content in his photographs. Focusing on select photographs, this talk illuminates how Watkins influenced Eadweard Muybridge by laying the groundwork for Muybridge's motion studies through his own multiple views of one subject or location.
Sunday, January 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
This will be Weston Neuf last public presentation before his retirement of his post. Jan 31, 2009.
The exhibition "Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California" will run until March 1, 2009
In 1850, at the age of 20, Carleton Watkins is believed to have arrived in California from New York via South America. He embarked on a life in photography that began auspiciously during the gold rush (which started in 1849) and ended abruptly with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire that destroyed his negatives. In between those historic moments, Watkins witnessed an era in which a recurring theme was the enormity of all things in the West. He photographed the expansive western landscape with its miles of coastline, vast natural resources, colossal trees, and the monoliths of the Yosemite Valley using an oversize mammoth-plate camera.
In the 1860s Watkins's Yosemite photographs brought him fame from as far away as Paris, but a decade later he experienced a painful financial reversal. In the end, he died a pauper in 1916 after a life that brought him into dialogue with the many "giants" of his era. The photographs he left behind provide a unique personal vision of the birth and growth of California.
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