print email comment close Dialogue Among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California URL: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/dialogue_giants/ Description: Companion to a 2008-09 exhibit about photographer Carleton Watkins, whose career "began auspiciously during the gold rush (which started in 1849) and ended abruptly with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire that destroyed his negatives." Features a slide show of Watkins' photographs, a simulation of a stereograph as seen through a stereoscope, and a video about the wet collodion photography process. From the Getty Museum. Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Trust LII Database Information: Record 27203 created by Jennifer English on 11/14/2008 Last modification on 03/23/2009 Published: 04/02/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27203