Mark Klett

First Camp of the Season: June 29/30 1979, "Bread Loaf Rock" City of Rocks, Idaho

Maker

Mark Klett (American, b. 1952)

Title

First Camp of the Season: June 29/30 1979, "Bread Loaf Rock" City of Rocks, Idaho
The Rephotographic Survey Project

Year

1979

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

The image is titled and dated in silver ink.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift from the Collection of Joe Deal and Betsy Ruppa

Object Number

2010.82.30

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

America in View
Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
Sep 21, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013

Label copy

Mark Klett’s “Rephotographic Survey Project” is an endeavor to discover how the landscape has changed by carefully remaking 19th-century expedition photography. Rather than replicate a specific historical view however, this image serves as a record of Klett’s journey, using 19th-century tropes such as the inclusion of the figure (the artist) for scale and the handwritten title. Klett’s materials and process are contrastingly modern: the border on this photograph reveals that it is an enlarged print from a Polaroid negative.

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Tombstone

Mark Klett (American, b. 1952)
First Camp of the Season: June 29/30 1979, "Bread Loaf Rock" City of Rocks, Idaho; The Rephotographic Survey Project, 1979
Gelatin silver print from dye diffusion negative (Polaroid)
Image: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 inches)
Gift from the Collection of Joe Deal and Betsy Ruppa 2010.82.30

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