Watkins's Yosemite pictures are said to be the first American photographs to present nature from a deliberately aesthetic point of view.

"A Newspaperman's Eye," American photographs from the collection of Russell G. D'Oench.

Recreation: American photographs 1973-1988.

The third-floor studio-garret of his Short Hills home, where he does his writing, is lined with a collection of early American photographs, including daguerreotypes, and overstuffed bookcases.

It was constructed of 54 long unhewn logs, and contained exhibits of local forestry products, wildlife, and Native American photographs.

Grammar-school children could make themselves familiar with their side, but only scientists studying the Russian and American photographs could say that they knew much about Luna's chosen landing spot.

"We got a little bit of everything - French, British, American photographs - all, except their 20th-century pieces, that most people did not know about then."

These images are the earliest known American photographs of natural landscapes.

Although he was unaware of it, he had just taken the most famous American photograph of the Pacific war.

Erotic photographs of women - African-American, Hawaiian, Asian, Native American - are more furtive; they pretend to a kind of aesthetic innocence.