约塞米蒂马里波萨格罗夫盖伦·克拉克灰熊巨人剖面图 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	约塞米蒂马里波萨格罗夫盖伦·克拉克灰熊巨人剖面图
品名（英）	Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
入馆年号	1972年，1972.643.3
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Carleton E. Watkins【1829 至 1916】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1865 - 公元 1866
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	52.2 x 40.6 厘米. (20 9/16 x 16 英寸)
介绍（中）	从1861年开始，沃特金斯在20多年的时间里反复拍摄了尤塞米蒂山谷的美景，并因此而闻名。当时，他是一位使用"巨大"玻璃板进行艰难的湿火棉胶工艺的大师级实践者，该工艺以无与伦比的范围和清晰度呈现了广阔的景观及其无限的细节沃特金斯的生计依赖于向游客出售他在加州的景观，毫无疑问，他制作这张照片是为了给东方人留下深刻印象，并宣传西方是美国自己令人惊叹的伊甸园的概念。为了展示其惊人的规模，沃特金斯在这棵被称为灰熊巨人的三百年树龄的大树的底部摆出了探险家盖伦·克拉克的姿势。除了约塞米蒂山谷，马里波萨格罗夫的大树也在每个早期游客穿过该地区的路线上<1876年，沃特金斯破产后，他的画廊和底片都输给了他的竞争对手以赛亚·韦斯特·塔伯。泰伯没有赞扬他，而是继续印刷沃特金斯早期约塞米蒂最著名的图像，包括这张。
介绍（英）	Watkins made his name with views of the extraordinarily beautiful Yosemite Valley, which he photographed repeatedly over a twenty-year period, beginning in 1861. By that time, he was a virtuoso practitioner of the difficult wet-collodion process using "mammoth" glass plates, which rendered the vastness of the landscape and its infinite details with unsurpassed scope and clarity. Watkins, whose livelihood was dependent on sales of his California views to tourists, no doubt made this image with a mind to impressing Easterners and propagating the notion that the West was America's own amazing Garden of Eden. To illustrate its awesome scale, Watkins posed the explorer Galen Clark at the base of this massive three-hundred-year old tree known as the Grizzly Giant. Along with the Yosemite Valley, the Big Trees in the Mariposa Grove were on every early tourist's route through the region. Following his bankruptcy in 1876, Watkins lost his gallery and negatives to his competitor Isaiah West Taber. Without crediting him, Taber continued printing the most famous of Watkins's early Yosemite images, including this one.