Title
Davoncastle Butte, Sierra Nevada, c. 1866-1870. Creator: Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829-1916).
Caption
Davoncastle Butte, Sierra Nevada, c. 1866-1870. From the medium?s beginnings in the 1830s through the 1880s, most photographs were intimately scaled objects meant for the hand, the album, and the home. As the medium began being used to document landscapes and monuments in the 1850s, larger scale processes arose such as the glass-plate negative. The mammoth print truly seemed gargantuan in the 1860s. For much of the 20th century, the 8-x-10-inch gelatin silver print was the norm for photojournalism; these prints were destined for reproduction in books and magazines around the same scale.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM19F77_330
Model release
NA
Property release
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License type
Rights managed
Available size
77,6Mb (4,7Mb) / 20,2in x 14,9in / 6054 x 4482 (300dpi)