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160 years after Carleton Watkins's earliest extant photographs, the Seagrave Gallery is pleased to present a selection of prints by one of America's first and most important landscape artists. This exhibition opens two weeks after the release of Tyler Green's monumental biography of Watkins, which illuminates the scope and gravity of Watkins's influence on politics, culture, and science in the 19th-century. Watkins is now understood to be much more than a superlative 19th-century photographer—he was the first photographer to reveal the American landscape as metaphor, with …