Campsite Reached by Boat through Watery Canyons, Lake Powell
Artist: Mark Klett (American, born 1952)
Date: 1983
Dimensions:
16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.6 x 50.5 cm)
Medium: gelatin silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by Frederick P. Currier in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Currier
Object number: 1985.23
Label Text:
Mark Klett records nature with humor and reverence. Soft light and dark shadows reflecting from the glass-smooth surface of Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River between Utah and Arizona, creates an image with a dream-like quality. The Polaroid positive/negative film that Klett used to create this picture contributes to the soft print quality and beautifully interprets the crystalline light permeating the arid lands of the West and Southwest.
In 1977 Klett embarked on a project to remake the iconic images of the master 19th-century photographers Timothy O’Sullivan, William Henry Jackson, and their colleagues. The premise of the undertaking was to produce a series of new photographs, each made from exactly the same viewpoint and under the same condition of weather and light as the century-old original.
Mark Klett records nature with humor and reverence. Soft light and dark shadows reflecting from the glass-smooth surface of Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River between Utah and Arizona, creates an image with a dream-like quality. The Polaroid positive/negative film that Klett used to create this picture contributes to the soft print quality and beautifully interprets the crystalline light permeating the arid lands of the West and Southwest.
In 1977 Klett embarked on a project to remake the iconic images of the master 19th-century photographers Timothy O’Sullivan, William Henry Jackson, and their colleagues. The premise of the undertaking was to produce a series of new photographs, each made from exactly the same viewpoint and under the same condition of weather and light as the century-old original.
Description[wall label]
Mark Klett
American, born 1952
Campsite Reached by Boat Through Watery Canyons, Lake Powell
1983
Gelatin-silver photograph
Purchased with funds given by Frederick P. Currier in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Currier, 1985.23
Mark Klett
American, born 1952
Campsite Reached by Boat Through Watery Canyons, Lake Powell
1983
Gelatin-silver photograph
Purchased with funds given by Frederick P. Currier in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Currier, 1985.23
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