Abstract
Between two trips to the Yosemite Valley in 1867 and 1872, Eadweard Muybridge engaged in a groundbreaking, if short-lived, photographic exploration of landscape, light, and cloud. While the reception of Yosemite photographs by contemporaries such as Carleton Watkins has been central to constructing an environmental history of wilderness preservation, Muybridge's work at this same site opens upon a more ecological strain in the history of photography. Capturing clouds and other subjects with similar effects of blur, Muybridge's photographs began to picture a world informed by an emerging sense of light as a form of energy. In so doing, these works also revise the relationship between linear perspective in the history of painting and its role in early technologies of photography by employing the cloud itself as a kind of “atmospheric camera.”
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