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Authors, works and languages of the image
Carleton Watkins
View on the Columbia River, c. 1867
"View on the Columbia River", c. 1867. © Carleton E. Watkins.
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Introduction
This extraordinary image, captured using the arduous and physically exhausting wet collodion process on a giant "mammoth plate," is not merely a topographic record, but a complex philosophical meditation on the relationship between the untamed American wilderness and the inexorable advance of industrial civilization.
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