Working Across Time: Rephotographing Images of Place

Abstract

Time Studies is Klett's experimentation with photography and the passage of time. The beautiful toned silver gelatin prints in this series are strangely surreal -- at once crisp and blurry, the sun often appearing in multiple locations. The images are the result of long exposures, capturing time as it elapses in front of the lens.

Klett was kind enough to tell us a bit more about the work. Barcelona, May 27th of 2011

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• She is now six ( 6 years old)
• She is seven (7 years old)
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• AFTER the RUINS: 1906 and 2006. Rephotograping the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
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• Thinking the world in terms of entropy and chaos. Order will become disorder. The earthquake is not a one time event.
• The same building. in 1906 it used to be one of the tallest.
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• The tallest building in San Francisco in
• San Francisco Hotel
• owners made a new building with the same shape.
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• Statue of Louis Agassiz, the geologist. Standford University, San Francisco
• Earthquake crack in the ground of a mountain in the north of San Francisco.
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• Eadweard Muybridge taken in 1873
• A picture taken today from the same angle as Eadweard Muybridge's photograph.
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• Same picture taken by Eadweard Muybridge re-photographed today keeping the same angle, the se ame light.
• In geology there is not much difference...
• But concerning the trees, there was some of them that were still alive.
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• Trees were like clocks. The way to measure time were the trees.
• Yosemite is visited literally by millions of people every year.
• A photograph of Yosemite mountain taken by Ansel Adams.
• The same picture from Ansel Adams put into context.
• In the same context as Ansel Adams, a picture taken by Carleton Watkins around 1860. Waterfalls in the background.
• This is the overlook that was used by both photographers.
• A picture of a tree taken by Edward Weston in 1938.
• Edward Weston's 1938 picture was connected to a photograph taken by Eadweard Muybridge in 1873.
• The backgounds were connected.
• This is a movement through space and time.
• - There is a 300m distance between the two scenes.
• - Yosemite is a High picture density place. There are a lot of pictures taken in one same place.
• Another example of this density from Ansel Adams
• Another example of this density from Edward Weston
• Another example of this density can be revealed from two pictures taken at Tenaya lake in Yosemite one from Eadweard Muybridge and the other one from Edward Weston almost from the same spot.
• A very tiny toy camera found in that same spot discovered as a ghost.
• A project I'm working right now: Charting the Canyon. Photographed by Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe.
• Gran Canyon in Arizona. William Bell 1873.
• Two pictures from William Bell put together.
• The two images distanced of 200 years contextualized in the same space.
• Another picture from William Bell contextualized.
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• More pictures from Colorado put together in one same context.
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• The final place of all the pictures assembled.
• A picture of Thomas Moran painting the rocky mountains.
• A picture from where Thomas Moran was photographed while he was painting.
• A protected bird that was flying right at the moment of taking the new picture.
• A California Condor. An endangered spicie.
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• More combinations of pictures.
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• The painter Arthur Wesley Dow making a picture of the canyon
• The place were Arthur Wesley Dow was taking the picture from. Another contextualization at Hopi point in Gran Canyon.
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• Background information
• Contextualization
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• An early postcard. Klett pulling the branches down.
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• A kid with the same shirt as the person in a postcard edited 40 years ago.
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• Ansel Adam's picture in grey tones.
• Our picture in colour.
• Another Ansel Adam's picture taken in Yavapai Point.
• Pictures taken from Yavapai Point by Ansel Adams
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• A mashup from Ansel Adam's pictures
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• - Continuous space in different layers. The photographs represent time.
• The way we work; explanation of the procedure. We work entirely digital. US national archives.
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• Panorama from Hopi point.
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• Fictitious panoramas.
• The final piece is. over three meters long
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• Bright Angel trail.
• 2 meters by 3 meters.
• This picture was actually made from 56 different photographs taken one after the other thus making a narrative.
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• Typical postcard of the Grand Canyon.
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• Picture taken with my iPhone. Thomas Moran.
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• The postcard disolves into a video. A metaphoric piece.
• Stereo views.
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• Stereo view by Bell in 1872
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• A stereo picture from a two dimensional picture of Ansel Adam. We made our picture several hundred meters away from Adam's.
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• Pictures taken from a public telescope.
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