A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time\nOur ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable “place apart” to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked complicated questions about the importance of the wild in American environmentalism, as well as new aesthetic expectations as we reframe the wilderness as (to some degree) a human creation.\nWild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a merging of short, thematic essays with a striking visual narrative. Often, the wild is viewed in binary terms: either revered as sacred and ecologically pure or dismissed as spoiled by human activities. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process.

Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea

Arts & Photography

Klett, Mark

Pyne, Stephen J.

Minteer, Ben A.

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

Parables and photographs demonstrate and evoke the life that thrives in this apparent wasteland, a place where plants, animals, and people live in true symbiosis

Desert Legends: Re-Storying the Sonoran Borderlands

Science & Math

Nabhan, Gary Paul

Nature & Ecology

Henry Holt Co.

Headlands: The Marin Coast at the Golden Gate

History

Metcalf, Paul

Mandel, Mike

Sultan, Larry

Decoster, Miles

World

Univ of New Mexico Pr

The sites of the government survey project of the late 19th century were rephotographed by Klett and others. The views from Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, California, New Mexico and Arizona, originally photographed primarily by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, but also by A. J. Russell, J. K. Hillers and Alexander Gardner, are presented along side the contemporary images. Photographs by Mark Klett, Gordon Bushaw and Rick Dingus; project director, Ellen Manchester; project coordinator, JoAnn Verburg; essay by Paul Berger. 221 pages; 262 b&w images plus 10 maps; 12.5 x 9 inches.

Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project

Manchester, Ellen

Verburg, JoAnn

Bushaw, Gordon

Dingus, Ri

Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest

Photographs document how the region has changed, and look at the impact of people on the environment

Limerick, Patricia Nelson

Southall, Thomas W.

In this brilliant but strangely unsettling contribution to the field of landscape studies, which accompanies a traveling exhibition, Klett sees people as part of the natural landscape. His photographs (115, five in color) examine the way people have occupied and experienced this land and the evidence they have left of their presence. Patricia Limerick discusses the photographs in light of new definitions of the West, and Thomas Southall traces the evolution of Klett's photography. 11x9". Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Photographs provide views of the landscape of the deserts of the American Southwest

Traces of Eden: Travels in the Desert Southwest

David R Godine Pub

Book by Klett, Mark, Foresta, Merry

Capital View: A New Panorama of Washington, D.C.

Foresta, Merry

National Museum of American Art

An artist of singular originality and vision, award-winning landscape photographer Mark Klett has built a profound and dynamic career that captures the space and history of the American West while evoking notions of time, perception, and cultural memory. His practice is grounded in both artistic inquiry and the evolution of photographic technologies, reflecting a constellation of ideas that blend science with poetry. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Klett has advanced a new notion of landscape photography that reframes our sense of what pictures of the land mean.
Seeing Time is the first retrospective of Klett’s career. It presents selected photographs from thirteen different projects, some never before seen. The book showcases work from individual and collaborative projects alongside texts by distinguished curators who examine the ideas behind Klett’s practice, its historical context, and his collaborative processes. From his rephotographic surveys, which pair conceptual art with questions about how lands change through human intervention, to the series of portraits with his eldest daughter on their shared birthday, the images presented here combine to form a body of work at once expansive and richly personal.

Seeing Time: Forty Years of Photographs

Tucker, Anne Wilkes

Davis, Keith E.

Senf, Rebecca A.

Individual Artists

University of Texas Press

Yosemite is a world-famous location that has attracted photographic greats like Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams, along with environmentalists, mountaineers, and countless tourists. Yosemite in Time puts this landscape and its history in a new perspective, with Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe’s original photographs and panoramas, together with rephotographs of some of the most enduring images taken at Yosemite. In three essays, noted critic Rebecca Solnit brings in nature, culture, and politics to look through the past to understand the present. As she writes in her introduction, “Yosemite is a singular place onto which are mapped myriad expectations and desires.” To track many of those designs, Klett, Solnit, and Wolfe made multiple expeditions over three years. They found the exact points where Muybridge, Weston, and Adams stood to photograph what would become seminal views of a grand landscape; they replicated the exact time of day and year of the earlier photographs in order to get exactly the same angle of light. While Klett and Wolfe brought both precision and invention to their rephotography, Solnit reconstructed the layers of meaning and overlapping ideas entwined with the “steep, intricate, hallowed, scarred landscape of Yosemite.” Together, the photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America’s conception of wilderness, examine how the place was interpreted by early Euro-Americans, and show how our conceptions of landscape have altered and how the landscape has changed―or not―over time. Arresting and incisive, Yosemite in Time explores the environmental and photographic history, science, and politics of a site that has long captured our collective imagination.

Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers

Solnit, Rebecca

Wolfe, Byron G.

Trinity University Press

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