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"Reconstructing the View" book

Book cover

We are pleased to announce the publication of Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe.

It includes essays on working methods and collaboration by photography curator Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum, and an essay by Stephen Pyne, Regents' Professor, Arizona State University, that provides a conceptual framework for understanding the history of the canyon.

Published by the University of California Press with the Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography. Hardcover, 208 pages.

Forewards by Director James Ballinger of the Phoenix Art Museum and Director Katharine Martinez of the Center for Creative Photography.

It is available directly from UC Press (direct link here) as well as fine book sellers such as PhotoEye (direct link here).

The Phoenix Art Museum gift shop currently has copies signed by all four contributors.

Mark and Byron

Reconstructing the View - Grand Canyon Photographs

Byron and Mark on a platform overlooking the Marble Canyon

Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe began in 2007 and concluded in 2011.

There is a book publication (see posting above) and a touring exhibition will begin in 2013. Please contact us for details.

For a more thorough description of the work, please see this brochure produced by The Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography.

Mark and Byron

Rock formations on the road to Lee's Ferry

LeesFerry1Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Rock formations on the road to Lee's Ferry, AZ.

Left Inset: William Bell, 1872. Plateau North of the Colorado River near the Paria. (Courtesy National Archives)

Right Inset: William Bell, 1872. Headlands North of the Colorado River. (Courtesy National Archives)

Here is a brief video that describes our approach to making this rephotographic panorama.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 36"h x 76"w

Panorama from Point Sublime

PointSublimePanA

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Details from the view at Point Sublime on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, based on the panoramic drawing by William Holmes (1882).

William Henry Holmes, 1882. Sheets XV, XVI, XVII. Panorama of Point Sublime. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Here is a brief video that describes the making of this piece.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24”h x 96”w

Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime

SublimeKey

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime (with a rough accounting of the parts of a day and some heavenly phenomena), based on the panoramic drawing by William Henry Holmes (1882).

William Henry Holmes, 1882. Key to the Panorama form Point Sublime, Looking East, South and West. From Clarence Dutton, The Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy Library of Congress).

Detail one, two, and three.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: Three separate panels, each 24”h x 31.5”w

Panorama from Yavapai Point

YavapaiPan

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. One hundred and five years of photographs and seventeen million years of landscapes; Panorama from Yavapai Point on the Grand Canyon connecting photographs by Ansel Adams, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and the Detroit Publishing Company.

Left (two views): Ansel Adams, 1941, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ)
Middle view: Alvin Langdon Coburn, ca. 1911, Bright Angel Canyon. (Courtesy of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY)
Right: Detroit Publishing Company, 1902, The Grand Canyon of Arizona Across from O’Neil Point. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: small version = 24”h x60”w, large version = 36”h  x 88”w

Panorama from Hopi Point

Hopi

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Panorama from Hopi Point on the Grand Canyon, made over two days extending the view of Ansel Adams.

Right: Ansel Adams, 1941, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ) 

Here is a brief video that describes the process for creating the Hopi Point panorama.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: six individual panels at 24"h x 18"w plus one at 24"h x 33.5"w.

Views from the Marble Canyon Platform

MarbleCynMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Confirming the details of the moment across the geologic horizon of Marble Canyon. Views from a military spotting scope on the Platform where William Holmes drew the eastern edge of the Kaibab (1882).

Lithograph by William Henry Holmes, 1882. Sheet XIX, Views form the Marble Cañon Platform from the Eastern Brink of the Kaibab. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress).

Details one and two.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 120"w

August and June near Mather Point

Mather

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. August sunrise (left) and June sunset (right) near Mather Point. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Details one, two, and three.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: two separate panels for a combined total of 44"h x 150"w

Flight of the Condors

FlightMapMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2009. A map of flight for California Condors #4 and #99 above Yavapai Point. 

Inset: Photographer Unknown, nd. Postcard.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: small version = 24"h x 40"w, large version = 36"h x 60"w

Buttes of the Moenkopi near Lee's Ferry

LeesFerry2Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Buttes of the Moenkopi Formation near Lee's Ferry, Arizona.

Left Inset: William Bell, 1872. Headlands North of the Colorado River Plateau near Paria. (Courtesy National Archives)

Right Inset: William Bell, 1872. Chocolate Butte near Mouth of the Paria, Arizona. (Courtesy National Archives)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24w" x 75"h

Thomas Moran and condor no. 302

Moran and the CondorMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. View from the south rim of the Grand Canyon with Thomas Moran and California Condor number 302. 

Right: Photographer unknown, ca 1907. Thomas Moran, America’s greatest scenic artist sketching at Bright Angel Cove, Arizona. (Half of stereo view) Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, Riverside. 

Here's a brief video that describes the discoveries that are often made when investigating historic photographs.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24”h x 36”w

Rafters approaching Lava Falls

ToroweapMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. View down river from Toroweap Point, with rafters approaching Lava Falls. 

Inset: J. K. Hillers, ca 1872. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Inner gorge of the Grand Canyon. (U.S. Geological Survey)

Detail one.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: small version: 24"h x 55"w, large version: 44"h x 103"w

After Weston's Storm

WestonMarbleCyn

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Sixty-six years after Edward Weston’s “Storm, Arizona” From the Marble Canyon Trading Post.

Left: Edward Weston, 1941, Storm, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 16”h x 38.75”w

"My brother in Phoenix died," a found postcard

BrotherDiedVideoCardMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010.  "My brother in Phoenix died." A video response to a found postcard. From the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona. 

Best when viewed on an iPad. 

Medium: Digital video. Dimensions  = 6”h x 7.75”w. 

Postcard view from the gift shop

CardInGiftShopMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Desert View: from the window of the Watchtower gift shop. 

Inset: Colored postcard, no date. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 18.5"h  x 24"w

Descending into the Canyon

CynDescent

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Descending into the canyon, mid-morning on the trail at Bright Angel. Composited from fifty-six different pictures made over twenty-five minutes.

Detail one.

Medium: Lightjet print (large version) or digital inkjet print (small version). Dimensions: large = 72"h x 100"w, small =  60"h x 84"w

People on the edge

TelescopeMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. People on the edge. 

All: Photographers unknown, nd. Stereo views from the Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, Riverside.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 10"h x  118"w

Man peering into space

PeeringManMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Man peering into space. 

Bottom Left: Photographer unknown, ND. (Half of stereo view) Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, Riverside. 

Bottom Right: Alvin Langdon Coburn, ca. 1911. Snow in the Canyon. (Courtesy of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY) 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 24"w

The Devil's Anvil panorama

AnvilPanMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. At the Canyon's edge: from the foot of the Toroweap to the "Devil's Anvil" overhang with an upstream view of the Colorado River. 

 Inset L to R: William Bell, 1872. (Courtesy National Archives) 

a) Canyon of Kanab Wash Looking North 

b) Canyon of Kanab Wash 

c) Walls of the Grand Canyon Looking East, Colorado River 

d) Looking South Across Grand Canyon, Colorado River 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 84"w

William Bell on Route 89A

Rte89AMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. The rocks that William Bell photographed in 1872 along Route 89A, Vermillion Cliffs, Arizona 

Inset: William Bell, 1872. Headlands North of the Colorado River near the Paria. (Wet plate collodion negative Courtesy National Archives) 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 22"h x 63"w

Point Imperial and half of Ansel Adams

PtImperialMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Point Imperial on the Grand Canyon, 50% Ansel Adams, 50% Red Wall Limestone.

Left: Ansel Adams, 1941, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ) 

Detail one.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24”h x 33”w

Moonrise above Point Sublime

PtSublimeMoonriseMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Moonrise above Point Sublime.

Inset (three): Ansel Adams, 1941, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ) 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 32"h x 50"w

Overlooking the South Rim

Overlooking the South RimMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Overlooking the south rim, east of Bright Angel Canyon.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 44”h x 76”w

Lightning fire and smoke from the Powell Memorial

Lightning fire and smoke from the Powell MemorialMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Lightning fire and smoke above the south rim, view from the Powell Memorial.

Detail one.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 44”h x 74”w

El Tovar and Yavapai Point postcard mashup

Postcard mashupMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Reconstructing the view from the El Tovar to Yavapai Point using nineteen postcards.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: Left panel = 44”h x 76”w, right panel = 44"h x 68"w

The Jumper

The JumperMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Site of a dangerous leap, now overgrown.

Inset: Colored postcard, no date.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 10.5"h x 17.5"w

Hopi Point revisited

Hopi Point revisitedMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Panorama of Hopi Point based on the horizon line from west to east. 

Inset (L to R):

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. South rim edge looking west at sunrise. 
Mark Klett, 1983. Picnic on the edge of the rim. 
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Storm above south rim. 
Photographer Unknown, nd. Postcard. 
Photographer Unknown, nd. Souvenir photography album. 
Photographer unknown, ND. Colored postcard. 
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. North rim at mid day. 
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. North rim in clouds. 
Photographer Unknown, nd. Postcard. 
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Storm clouds 1. 
Photographer Unknown, nd. Souvenir photography album. 
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Storm clouds 2. 
Photographer unknown, ND. Colored postcard. 
Ansel Adams, 1941, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ) 
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Edge of south rim looking east.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 78"w

Woman viewing the Twentieth Century canyon

TelescopeMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2011. Woman viewing the canyon among Twentieth Century visions of Pictorialism, Modernism, and Tourism.

Image detail.

From left to right: Photographer unknown, postcard (detail) ca mid-twentieth century.

 Ansel Adams, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona 1941 (Courtesy National Archives Washington DC).

(Below) Photographer unknown, postcard (detail) ca mid-twentieth century.

Alvin Langdon Coburn, ca. 1911. (Courtesy of the George Eastman House,
Rochester NY).

Anne Brigman, Sanctuary, the Grand Canyon 1921 (Courtesy Etherton Gallert,
Tucson AZ).

Alvin Langdon Coburn, Bright Angel Canyon, ca. 1911 (Courtesy of the
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY).

Photographer unknown, postcard (detail) ca mid-twentieth century.

Detroit Publishing Company, The Grand Canyon of Arizona Across from
O¹Neil Point, 1902. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington DC).

Photographer unknown, postcard (detail) ca mid-twentieth century.

Photographer unknown, postcard (detail) ca mid-twentieth century.

 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 36"h x 90"w

Three panoramas from the Vulcan's Throne

Vulcan's Throne panoramasMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. At the Head of the Tuweep Valley: Over 180° across three panoramas – plus an antler, an arrowhead, and three hikes up the Vulcan’s Throne. 

Close-up of full left panel and detail.

Close-up of full middle panel and detail.

Close-up of full right panel and detail.

Left: William Bell, 1872. Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Arizona. Six Albumen Photographs. Courtesy Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. 

Middle: William Holmes, 1882. Sheet V, Looking up the Toroweap from Vulcan's Throne. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) 

Right: William Holmes, 1882. Sheet VI, The Grand Canyon from the Foot of the Toroweap - Looking East. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: Left panel = 12"h x 58"w, middle = 12"h x 55"w, right = 12"h x 40"w

Ansel Adams' day at Yavapai Point

Ansel Adams at Yavapai PointMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Combined record of Ansel Adams' photographs made over the course of an entire day, Yavapai Point. 

Inset (all): Ansel Adams, 1941, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ and the National Archives, Washington, DC)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 37"w

A walk around William Bell's "Perched Rock," Lee's Ferry, Arizona

PerchedRockVideoImage Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010.  A walk around the "Perched Rock," starting and ending with an 1872 picture by William Bell, Lee's Ferry, Arizona. 

Best when viewed on an iPad.  

Medium: Animated digital still photographs. Dimensions  = 7.75”h x 6”w

Panorama of Perched Rock in stereo

Panorama of Perched Rock in stereoMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Panorama of Perched Rock in stereo, Vermillion Cliffs, AZ 

Installation view showing the custom-built oversized stereo viewer, William Bell's original stereo and the card on display.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions:  Two panels for a combined size of 44"h x 143"w

A walk through William Bell's "Perched Rock," Lee's Ferry, Arizona

PerchedRockWalthroughVideoImage Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010.  A walk through William Bell's "Perched Rock," Lee's Ferry, Arizona. 

A composite stereoscopic image using parts of the scene from 2010 combined with a USGS Survey Expedition stereo card, 1872.  Best when viewed with a Holmes/iPad stereoscopic viewer. 

Medium: Stereoscopic digital video. Dimensions  = 3.5”h x 7”w


Reconstructing "The Transept"

Reconstructing The TranseptMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Piecing together "The Transept" with fifteen different pictures from five separate locations distributed across a half a mile. 

Here's a link to the original Holmes and Moran image. This is a brief video that animates the reconstruction using photographs.

Left: Attributed to William Holmes and Thomas Moran, 1882. Sheet XVIII, The Transept, Kaibab Division, Grand Canyon. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Ansel Adams and fire on the south rim

Ansel Adams and fire on the south rimMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Fire on the south rim connecting Ansel Adams' photographs made along the Grand Canyon Lodge North Rim waking trail. 

Inset: Ansel Adams, 1941, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 17"h x 40"w

$1.00 worth of scenery

TelescopeMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2009. $1.00 worth of scenery (every picture made by putting four quarters in a pay-per-view telescope).

Detail one.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 65"w

Ansel Adams at Moran Point

Ansel Adams and fire on the south rimMark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Panorama from Moran Point showing Ansel Adams' late afternoon view of the Grand Canyon. 

Bottom inset: Ansel Adams, 1941, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 42"w

Alvin Langdon Coburn's storm passing through three seasons

Coburn Two-in-one

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2009. Alvin Langdon Coburn’s storm passing through three seasons and ninety-eight years (1911, 2007, and 2009).

Inserts left and right: Alvin Langdon Coburn, ca. 1911. (Courtesy of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 24”h x 57”w

Rectilinear composition of the south rim with Alvin Langdon Coburn

Coburn Four-in-one

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2009. Rectilinear composition of the south rim made from six photographs, four by Alvin Langdon Coburn, ca. 1911.

Four insets: Alvin Langdon Coburn, ca. 1911. (Courtesy of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 24”h x 44”w

Coburn with dancer

Coburn with dancer

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2009. Woman on head and photographer with camera; unknown dancer and Alvin Langdon Coburn at Grand View Point.

Right inset: Photographer unknown, ca. 1911. Alvin Langdon Coburn. (Courtesy of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY)

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 17”h x 22”w

Viewing the spectacle

Buffalo Bill on stage

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2009. Viewing the spectacle; the Sinking Ship on the South Rim with Buffalo Bill making a toast.

Top insets (viewing figures): Photographers unknown, ND, selections from half of stereo views (Courtesy of the Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, Riverside).

Bottom left inset: Photographer unknown, 1893. Buffalo Bill and Party at Point Sublime, Grand Cañon of the Colorado. Half-tone print from Pioneer America (artist's collection).

Bottom right inset: Chromolithograph postcard, Detroit Publishing Company (William Henry Jackson), 1898. Arizona, Grand Canyon of Arizona.  (Courtesy Brigham Young University).

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 36”h x 89”w

Bridging the Soap Creek

Bridging the Soap Creek

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2009. Bridging the gap between two views, upstream and downstream, Soap Creek, Marble Canyon. Four separately framed photographic images.

Left: William Bell, 1872. Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Near Paria Creek, Looking East. Vintage albumen photograph on War Department mount, Wheeler Survey of the 100th Meridian. Size: 21.5" x 16.75" (mount), 11" x 8" (image).

Right: William Bell, 1872. Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Near Paria Creek, Looking West. Vintage albumen photograph on War Department mount, Wheeler Survey of the 100th Meridian. Size: 21.5" x 16.75" (mount), 10.75" x 8" (image).

Top: Klett and Wolfe, 2009. Views from the telescope, 12 hours with moonrise across the river. Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 8.75” x 31”

Bottom: Klett and Wolfe, 2009. Approaching Soap Creek Rapids, Marble Canyon. Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 13.5”h x 42.75”w

From Dutton Point in stereo

From Dutton Point in stereo

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2009. Observing the view east from Dutton Point in stereo.

Back: J. K. Hillers, 1872. Size: 8.5” x 18” (combined images). (Courtesy National Archives).

Overlay: Klett and Wolfe, 2009.  Standing on the edge of Dutton Point. Dimensions of each overlay image = 4.5" x 3.5"

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 8.5”h x 18”w

Arthur Wesley Dow, on the edge

Buffalo Bill on stage

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010. Arthur Wesley Dow, on the edge at Hopi Point, photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn in 1911.

Right image: Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1911.  Arthur Wesley Dow at Grand Canyon. (Courtesy of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY).

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 12.5”h x 41”w

Thomas Moran's sketch

Thomas Moran's sketch

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010. All that matched the view of Thomas Moran's sketch "Grand Cañon of the Colorado"with pieces from Dutton Point, Muav Saddle, and Swamp Point.

Back: Thomas Moran, 1873. Grand Cañon of the Colorado.  (Courtesy of the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma).

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 24.5”h x 41.5”w

Pieces of Moran's sketch at Dutton Point

Pieces of Moran

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010. Placing pieces of Thomas Moran's sketch "Grand Cañon of the Colorado" over the panoramic view from Dutton Point with part of the first photograph ever made from this remote location.

Inset: Thomas Moran, 1873. Grand Cañon of the Colorado. (Courtesy of the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma). And J. K. Hillers, 1872. Part of a stereo view. (Courtesy National Archives).

Medium: Digital inkjet print.  Dimensions = 24.7”h x 83.5”w

From Rim to Rim

Rim to Rim

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010. Scanning the other side, across the chasm from rim to rim.


Far left image: Photographer unknown, nd. Half of  a stereo view from the Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, Riverside. Far right image: A. J. Baker, 1922. The Grand Canyon, Arizona, from Bright Angel Point. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 11”h x 118”w


Lonely Dell panorama

Lonely Dell

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010. Connecting the pieces of William Bell's panorama of the Lonely Dell Ranch where the Paria and Colorado Rivers join at Lee's Ferry.

Overlay: Wm Bell, 1872. Side of Canyon and junction of Paria and Colorado Rivers. Size: 8.5” x 18” (combined images). (Courtesy National Archives).

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 24”h x 120”w

The Devil's Anvil in stereo

Devil's Anvil in stereo

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010. At the canyon's edge:  figures on "The Devil's Anvil" overhang, 3000 feet above the Colorado River.

Back: Klett and Wolfe, 2010.  Figures on the Devil's Anvil. Size: 8.5” x 19”

Overlay: William Bell, 1872. Devil's Anvil, Sheavwitz Crossing Near Foot of Toroweap Valley, River 3000 Feet Below, Colorado River. Dimensions of each image = approximately 5" x 6". (Courtesy National Archives).

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 8.5”h x 19”w

Paria Canyon Overlook

Paria Overlook

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010. Overlooking rafters on the Colorado River. Above Marble Canyon near Lee's Ferry, Arizona.

Overlay: Wm Bell, 1872. Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Colorado River (half of a stereo card, Courtesy National Archives).

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 24”h x 44”w

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