Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => Topic started by: Bryan on July 20, 2017, 06:59:23 PM
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If you're interested in historical photography, Carleton Watkins was one of the first photographers in the western U.S. His photography helped inspire a law to protect Yosemite, the first time the federal government set aside land for conservation and public use. Oregon Public Broadcasting did a good story on him:
http://www.opb.org/news/article/carleton-watkinds-columbia-river-gorge-first-landscape-photographer/ (http://www.opb.org/news/article/carleton-watkinds-columbia-river-gorge-first-landscape-photographer/)
This is a link to the Carleton Watkins web site where you can see much of his work.
http://www.carletonwatkins.org/index.php?v=list (http://www.carletonwatkins.org/index.php?v=list)
Living in the west I find this very interesting to see how much has changed since he made his photographs. This location is now a park near where I'm working right now. I'm planning to go there in the near future to shoot some film. I think there are still some old remnants of the shipyard that was there.
http://www.carletonwatkins.org/getviewbyid.php?id=1004462 (http://www.carletonwatkins.org/getviewbyid.php?id=1004462)