Mark Klett is a photographer interested in making new works that respond to historic images; creating projects that explore relationships between time, change and perception; and exploring the language of photographic media through technology. I will be looking at his work he created with Byron Wolfe called Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon. The duo spent five years focusing on past and present images of the Grand Canyon to create a whimsical view of one of America’s most popular attractions. They take a playful look at rephotography taking photographs from the same precise locations over time. Instead of presenting older and newer images as a continuum to show evidence of change, the duo place the historical image directly over their new photograph of the old location, thereby hiding the very information rephotography would normally provide. By doing this, they also create an entirely new landscape, one in which a window into the past has been opened and time passing can be seen as only part of the story. I have looked at this artist because he uses pictures of the past then retakes the pictures of what they look like now. I like how he recreates the landscapes instead of just laying the images on top of each other. I like how in the second image he uses a range of different coloured images instead of the images just being the same colour. In my opinion, this draws viewers in as its more eye-catching.
Katie Abrahams 