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Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

Senf, Rebecca A.
Pyne, Stephen J.
Klett, Mark

Hardcover

American Art - GeneralGeneral ArtGeneral Photography

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ISBN10: 0520273907
ISBN13: 9780520273900
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 30 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 3.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 12.20 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project, Reconstructing the View. The team's landscape photographs are based on the practice of rephotography, in which they identify sites of historic photographs and make new photographs of those precise locations. Klett and Wolfe referenced a wealth of images of the canyon, ranging from historical photographs and drawings by William Bell and William Henry Holmes, to well-known artworks by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, and from souvenir postcards to contemporary digital images drawn from Flickr. The pair then employed digital postproduction methods to bring the original images into dialogue with their own. The result is this stunning volume, illustrated with a wealth of full-color illustrations that attest to the role photographers--both anonymous and great--have played in picturing American places.

Rebecca Senf's compelling essay traces the photographers' process and methodology, conveying the complexity of their collaboration. Stephen J. Pyne provides a conceptual framework for understanding the history of the canyon, offering an overview of its discovery by Europeans and its subsequent treatment in writing, photography, and graphic arts.



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