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Brooke Jarvis

Brooke Jarvis is a Seattle-based magazine writer. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Pacific Standard, and many other places. She is a contributing writer to The California Sunday Magazine.

Watkins photographed vistas like the valley’s Half Dome.

How an Obscure Photographer Saved Yosemite

The beauty of the national park became clear long before Ansel Adams