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2 unusual facts about Carleton Watkins


Carleton Watkins

His photographs were auctioned, following a business setback, resulting in his photographs being published without credit by I. W. Taber, the new owner.

Milton Latham

In 1874, Latham commissioned Carleton Watkins to photograph the huge estate and produce two presentation albums of mammoth plate prints.


Lenore Malen

The book's black and white photographs illustrate a range of influences – from the Kinsey Institute's archives, stills from Peter Weiss's 1967 theatrical production and film Marat/Sade and photographs by 19th-century French anatomist Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne, to the photographs of the l9th-century photographer Carleton Watkins.


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