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Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Rebecca A. Senf
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Description for Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, 129 color illustrations, 26 with inset duotones; 2 additional duotones Book is l. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 310 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1650. The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe. 208 pages, col. Illustrations. 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. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AJC. Dimension: 246 x 310 x 23. Weight: 1650.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
1649g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520273900
SKU
V9780520273900
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About Rebecca A. Senf
Rebecca A. Senf is Norton Family Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and at the Phoenix Art Museum. Stephen J. Pyne is Professor, Human Dimensions Faculty, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University. He is the author of How the Canyon Became Grand.
Reviews for Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
"Brilliant." American Photo "An incredible work of art... A wonderful book to return to time and again to see what you might have missed the previous times or simply to appreciate the genius that went into it." National Parks Traveler "[Creates] an entirely new landscape, one in which a window into the past has been opened and time passing can ... Read more