View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape

by Fox, William L.

• ISBN13: 9780826322203
• ISBN10: 0826322204
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Mark Klett has been photographing the American West for nearly twenty-five years. He directed the Rephotographic Survey Project in the late 1970s, which located and rephotographed the sites of images made by William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, and other photographers surveying the West in the late nineteenth century. Klett has also published several books of his own work.

Using his travels in the Nevada desert with Mark Klett and his current rephotographic team as the starting point, William Fox offers here an examination of the history of photography in the American West and of Klett's role in documenting the landscape. Like the story of photography itself, this is a multilayered narrative. Part historical overview, part travel journal, part biographical study of Klett, View Finder explores the evolution of our view of the land from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Fox looks at the legacy left by the likes of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Robert Adams. And in focusing on the work of Mark Klett in the last quarter century, William Fox r

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Third View: July 3rd: Logan City	3	(26)
A Brief History of Photography and Timothy O'Sullivan	29	(18)
Third View: July 5th: Tonopah to Austin	47	(24)
The Evolution of Landscape Photography	71	(32)
Third View: July 7th: Dixie Valley and the Forty Mile Desert	103	(24)
Mark Klett and Second View	127	(22)
Third View: July 9th: Karnak Ridge and Fallon	149	(32)
The Territory Revealed	181	(32)
Third View: July 12th: Virginia City to Steamboat Springs	213	(24)
Tempe: Revisioning Landscape Photography	237	(22)
Epilogue: Muley Point	259	(38)
Sources	297