Vintage Yosemite

From 1902-1907, Harold A. Taylor photographed Yosemite, operating out of his Studio of the Three Arrows in Yosemite Valley, and using dry glass plate negatives. Glass plate negatives, though fragile and heavy, permit stunning clarity and depth of light-and celluloid would all but replace them by the late 1920s.

Vintage Yosemite displays Taylor's sensibility to Yosemite's grand views. We watch light move through giant sequoias, across rock faces, and along rivers, streams, lakes, and waterfalls. Together with visitors, wagons, and cabins of the era, we experience Yosemite as it was over one hundred years ago.

Vintage Yosemite reveals subtleties of transformation and rhythms of magnificence.

Harold A. Taylor was born in 1878 in south London. In 1896, he left England and settled in California. In 1912, after his tenure in Yosemite, Taylor moved to Coronado, where he worked in photography and established the Coronado Floral Association with his wife Maud. He died in 1960 at the age of 81.

Susan Entsminger is a writer, artist, and ecologist. She studied botany and French at Humboldt State University and has a PhD in biology from Dartmouth College. Susan's art appears in books of poetry such as Dabney Stuart's Open the Gates: Poems for Young Readers and Victoria Sullivan's Why Water Plants Don't Drown. She studies book arts at the Academy of American Bookbinding. And she designs and constructs Pinyon's handmade limited editions.