For National Park Week, UC Press is highlighting books that give us new ways of understanding and seeing our national parks. These titles explore how our national parks came to be and …
This fall, author Tyler Green is continuing his series of lectures in relation to his award-winning book, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, an expansive history of influential landscape photographer Carleton Watkins …
We are honored to announce that Tyler Green and his book Carleton Watkins: Making the West American have won the 2018 California Book Awards‘s Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing. The medal …
In partnership with FlakPhoto, we are giving away 5 copies of Tyler Green’s fascinating biography on Carleton Watkins, the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of …
This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the Western History Association conference from October 17-20 in San Antonio. #WHA2018 By Tyler Green, author of Carleton Watkins: Making …
Described as a “fascinating and indispensable book” in a significant and extensive review by Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, award-winning critic and historian Tyler Green will discuss his debut book, Carleton Watkins: Making the …
Best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, Carleton Watkins made his first trip there in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. …
by Glenn Willumson, author of Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad This guest post is part of a series for World Photo Day. Some of our authors with recent and forthcoming titles …