Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
- ISBN-10
- 0918471516
- ISBN-13
- 9780918471512
- Series
- Carleton Watkins
- Category
- Photography
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-01-01
- Publisher
- San Francisco Museum
- Authors
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carleton E. Watkins, Maria Morris Hambourg
Description
"Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception examines the signal achievement of this photographic innovator in the context of burgeoning western development and new ways of experiencing the world visually."--BOOK JACKET.
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