Carleton Watkins

Making the West American Tyler Green

OCTOBER 2018

Drawing on fresh archival discoveries, Tyler Green reveals how Carleton Watkins, widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century, didn’t just reflect his time, but also acted as agent of influence. This telling of Watkins’s story is rich with fascination for anyone interested in American history; the West; and how art and artists impacted the development of American ideas, industry, landscape, and politics.