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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