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

Arts & Photography

Klett, Mark

Manchester, Ellen

Verburg, JoAnn

Bushaw, Gordon

Dingus, Ri

Photography & Video

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Arid Waters is a photographic response to the growing crisis of water scarcity, which exists because our culture thinks of water as a commodity, or an abstract legal right, rather than the most basic physical source of life. The Water in the West Project began as a collaborative effort designed to present an artistic response to water as a social issue. Photography historian Ellen Manchester and the photographers - Mark Klett, Terry Evans, Laurie Brown, Peter Goin, Robert Dawson, Martin Stupich, Gregory Conniff, and Wanda Hammerbeck - address the question: How can photography contribute to the urgent public debate over water use and allocation? Project members prepared an exhibition of their work, defining it as a laboratory and emphasizing the process of working through ideas. Contact prints and numerous work prints were displayed on the walls of the Sheppard Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno, and simultaneously the Nevada Humanities Committee sponsored a conference entitled "Water in the Arid West." Participants included historians, writers, ranchers, politicians, lawyers, students, and community members. Arid Waters documents the evolution of the Water in the West Project from its inception as a group collaboration to the foundation of an archive. Ellen Manchester, codirector of the Water in the West Project, has written an informative introduction that provides a historical perspective for the collaboration. Including 59 photographs from the eight photographers, Arid Waters is a testimony to the role photography has played in western history.

Arid Waters: Photographs from the Water in the West Project

Univ of Nevada Pr

Arid Waters is a photographic response to the growing crisis of water scarcity, which exists because of the tendency to think of water as a commodity, or an abstract legal right, rather than the most basic physical source of life. The Water in the West Project began as a collaborative effort designed to present an artistic response to water as a social issue. Photography historian Ellen Manchester and the photographers—Mark Klett, Terry Evans, Laurie Brown, Peter Goin, Robert Dawson, Martin Stupich, Gregory Conniff, and Wanda Hammerbeck—address the question: How can photography contribute to the urgent public debate over water use and allocation? Project members prepared an exhibition of their work, defining it as a laboratory and emphasizing the process of working through ideas. This collection documents the evolution of the Water in the West Project from its inception as a group collaboration to the foundation of an archive.

Arid Waters: Photographs From The Water In The West Project

Goin, Peter

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

University of Nevada Press

Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape

UNKNO

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