If you're interested in Yosemite, "The Yosemite" by John Muir is worth a
look.
Abebooks have it cheap with free US shipping:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=19099650576&searchurl=kn%3D
yosemite%26sts%3Dt%26sortby%3D17%26an%3Djohn%2520muir
...Wayne
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Sent: Wednesday, 15 June 2016 10:41 PM
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Subject: [OM] "The beauty of Yosemite long before Ansel Adams"
The subject line is from the June 2016 issue of Smithsonian magazine which
has a short article about photographer Carleton Watkins. Maybe the greatest
photographer you've probably never heard of. Watkins first photographed
Yosemite in the summer of 1861 using 18x22" glass plates.
His photographs were supposedly instrumental in Lincoln signing a bill in
1864 that protected the Yosemite Valley as "inviolable", well before the
formation of the National Park System.
You can find an extensive article about him on Wiki here:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_Watkins>
It's not a particularly happy story as Watkins lost much of his work to his
creditor and to free-loaders who copied his work. At the time photographs
in the US were not protected by copyright law.
Ultimately he lost most of his work when his studio on Market Street was
destroyed by the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
A tidbit you won't find in the Wiki article is that Ansel Adams also went
through the San Francisco quake... at age 4. He was thrown against a wall
which gave him his permanently crooked nose.
Chuck Norcutt
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