Klett and Wolfe

This book is almost like a photographic documentary of their journey and the process of recreating the images. We see the steps that they went through in perfectly placing the large format camera on the tripod and angling and placing it in a position that would perfectly match up to the original image. In some of the images that we see, we can understand the struggle that they would have gone through in not just placing the camera in the correct location, but because the landscape and its surrounding can change, then that makes it even harder, a better outcome I believe because we can see the change, but to photograph it would have been extremely difficult.

William Henry Jackson, Tthe Bluffs of Green River, Wyoming, c. 1885. P. 262 

Above we have an example of the preparation that Klett and Wolfe went through, picking up on every detail in creating the exact recreation of the original image. You can see the notes that they made on a copy of the original image by William Henry Jackson, circling key rocks that need to be in the correct place, because they are still part of the landscape, and horizon lines to help make sure that they can reproduce the landscape as equal and as precise as humanly possible. I like how they include these notes because an appreciation for their recreations and time spent in this really draws us in. Below is their photographic recreation of the original image (above), they even includes a man standing in the image, not posed the same but this makes it his own and we mainly focus on the landscape this way.

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe for Third View, Mike at Tollgate Rock, Wyoming, 1999. P.263

Fox, W.L (2001). View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography and the Reinvention of Landscape. : University of New Mexico Press.