Robert C. May Photography Lecture Series: Amy Stein, lecture

Mark Klett’s photographs of iconic scenes in places like Yosemite National Park and the Grand Canyon examine the interaction of history, time, and place, but also take measure of how we relate to the land. He walks in the footsteps of nineteenth-century photographers who journeyed to the great wilderness of the American West. His initial re-photographic survey project revealed enduring geological features and the human impact on the environment. In recent years, often collaborating with Byron Wolfe,… Show more Klett has gone on to take both a literal and conceptual look at how we frame the landscape in our minds. He has created panoramas of his own photography that also incorporate history—in the form of an 1861 photograph by Carleton Watkins, a 1936 image made by Ansel Adams, or a tourist postcard—uniting past and present in a visual continuum.

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