Carleton Watkins: Making the West American

Join the California Historical Society, University of California Press, and author Tyler Green for a stirring conversation surrounding one of California’s most significant artists and early photographers, Carleton Watkins. In conjunction with our new photography exhibition, Boomtowns: How Photography Shaped Los Angeles and San Francisco, Tyler Green will speak about his new book, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American. This presentation of Watkins’s work in San Francisco and the Los Angeles area, especially his too-little-considered architectural photography, will be followed by comments and questions from CHS Managing Curator Erin Garcia and will transition into an audience Q&A, book signing, and reception.