Mark Klett, Sites Over Time: Three Projects that Revisit Western Landscape Photographs

Mark Klett is an internationally known photographer who specializes in perceptions of the American West, the relation between its past and present, and the dynamic interaction of nature and culture. His many solo exhibitions include the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. He has authored and co-authored eight books that feature his photographs and is director of the website project, Third View (www.thirdview.org), in which the location and orientation of nineteenth-century photographs of the landscape were recreated in the 1970s and again in the 1990s. His talk will explore this project, his work at Yosemite National Park, and his current work rephotographing views of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco and on the Stanford campus.