Carleton E. Watkins; Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon Author: Alinder, James, Editor Place: [Carmel, CA] Publisher: The Friends of Photography in association with the Weston Gallery Date: 1979 Description: 136 pp, including 51 plates. Photographs. (Oblong 8vo) 9x11½", white cloth, gilt stamped spine, illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. Publication prospectus laid in. "In 1867 Carlton Watkins (1829-1916), a prominent San Francisco landscape photographer, carried a mammoth glass plate camera through the beautiful near-wilderness landscape along the Columbia River and to the growing cities of Portland, Oswego and Oregon City. Five years later he published these photographs in a magnificent album which is now extremely rare. Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon includes all of the photographs from the album, reproduced in the exact order of the original." from the Publication Prospectus "Watkins arrived in Portland in July 1867, determined to expand the range of his work to the Pacific Northwest. Though he photographed Portland, Oregon City, and Oswego, his real focus was the Columbia River Gorge. No photographer had ever attempted to photograph the Gorge so thoroughly. Travel was difficult and no through roads existed, so the photographer went by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company's steamships, barges, and its portage railroads at the river’s impasses at Cascades Rapids and the Passage of the Dalles. Watkins traveled with his mammoth camera, a stereoview camera, tripods, hundreds of glass-plate negatives, a portable darkroom tent, and the chemicals and equipment needed to develop negatives in the field. He made at least 59 mammoth plates and 139 stereoviews during his trip and captured some of the first photographs of now-iconic landmarks such as Multnomah Falls, Cape Horn, and Castle Rock (now Beacon Rock). He also photographed the Native and non-Native people who lived and worked on the river’s shores." from The Oregon Encyclopedia. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine in a near fine mylar protected dust jacket. Lots sold without reserve are sold “as Is” and are not returnable under any circumstances. The minimum shipping and handling per invoice is $20 for shipments to the US and $30 for shipments outside the US please consider this when determining your bid amount Item number: 317151
Carleton E. Watkins; Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon Author: Alinder, James, Editor Place: [Carmel, CA] Publisher: The Friends of Photography in association with the Weston Gallery Date: 1979 Description: 136 pp, including 51 plates. Photographs. (Oblong 8vo) 9x11½", white cloth, gilt stamped spine, illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. Publication prospectus laid in. "In 1867 Carlton Watkins (1829-1916), a prominent San Francisco landscape photographer, carried a mammoth glass plate camera through the beautiful near-wilderness landscape along the Columbia River and to the growing cities of Portland, Oswego and Oregon City. Five years later he published these photographs in a magnificent album which is now extremely rare. Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon includes all of the photographs from the album, reproduced in the exact order of the original." from the Publication Prospectus "Watkins arrived in Portland in July 1867, determined to expand the range of his work to the Pacific Northwest. Though he photographed Portland, Oregon City, and Oswego, his real focus was the Columbia River Gorge. No photographer had ever attempted to photograph the Gorge so thoroughly. Travel was difficult and no through roads existed, so the photographer went by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company's steamships, barges, and its portage railroads at the river’s impasses at Cascades Rapids and the Passage of the Dalles. Watkins traveled with his mammoth camera, a stereoview camera, tripods, hundreds of glass-plate negatives, a portable darkroom tent, and the chemicals and equipment needed to develop negatives in the field. He made at least 59 mammoth plates and 139 stereoviews during his trip and captured some of the first photographs of now-iconic landmarks such as Multnomah Falls, Cape Horn, and Castle Rock (now Beacon Rock). He also photographed the Native and non-Native people who lived and worked on the river’s shores." from The Oregon Encyclopedia. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine in a near fine mylar protected dust jacket. Lots sold without reserve are sold “as Is” and are not returnable under any circumstances. The minimum shipping and handling per invoice is $20 for shipments to the US and $30 for shipments outside the US please consider this when determining your bid amount Item number: 317151
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