Campsite Reached by Boat through Watery Canyons, Lake Powell

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Campsite Reached by Boat through Watery Canyons, Lake Powell

Artist Mark Klett (American, born 1952)

Date1983

Dimensions16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.6 x 50.5 cm)

Mediumgelatin silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by Frederick P. Currier in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Currier

Object number

1985.23

Not on View

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

Label TextMark 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.Exhibition HistoryTMA, Word Play, October 16, 2009- February 7, 2010.

Toledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.

Toledo Museum of Art, The American West: Photographs of a New Frontier, January 15-May 15, 2016.