Looking Down Yosemite Valley
Eadweard Muybridge, Looking Down Yosemite Valley, ca. 1870, albumen silver print, Bequest of Fae Heath Batten, public domain, 1997.58.111
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- Title
Looking Down Yosemite Valley
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1870
- Medium
albumen silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 15 11/16 in x 20 3/8 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Bequest of Fae Heath Batten
- Accession Number
1997.58.111
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Beginning in 1867, California-based photographer Eadweard Muybridge created “mammoth-plate” glass negatives—measuring more than 16 x 20 inches—in the rugged Yosemite Valley. Many of these negatives were purchased by Thomas Houseworth & Co. of San Francisco, which mass-produced and sold views created by local photographers. Although the company’s most successful product was the stereograph (a set of two small photographs that, when placed in a viewing device, appeared three-dimensional), they also made large-scale landscape prints. This majestic view of Yosemite, with its mountains and trees reflected in the quiet surface of Mirror Lake, remains a popular site for photographers and tourists alike.
- Exhibitions
2011 One Woman’s Legacy: Selections from the Fae Heath Batten Photography Bequest Portland Art Museum