Alan Jacobs


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In anticipation of Earth Day, the wonder of looking up at ancient giants. 

These giant sequoias are in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Watkins spent decades photographing this area, opening the Yosemite Art Gallery in 1867.

Among the Treetops, Calaveras Grove, about 1878, Carleton Watkins, albumen print. J. Paul Getty Museum.