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"Reconstructing the View" book

I am pleased to announce the publication of Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe.

It includes essays on working methods and collaboration by photography curator Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum, and an essay by Stephen Pyne, Regents' Professor, Arizona State University, that provides a conceptual framework for understanding the history of the canyon.

Published by the University of California Press with the Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography. Hardcover, 208 pages.

Forewards by Director James Ballinger of the Phoenix Art Museum and Director Katharine Martinez of the Center for Creative Photography.

It is available directly from UC Press (direct link here) as well as fine book sellers such as PhotoEye (direct link here).

The Phoenix Art Museum gift shop currently has copies signed by all four contributors.

Byron

Reconstructing the View

To see a full catalog of our work on this project, please visit klettandwolfe.com.

Reconstructing the View is a collaboration with Mark Klett. 

A book (University of California Press and the Phoenix Art Museum, November 2012) and traveling exhibition are forthcoming.  The Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography produced this brochure for an exhibition we had in 2009. 

Above: Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Details from the view at Point Sublime on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, based on the panoramic drawing by William Holmes (1882).

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24”h x 96”w

Here is a brief video that describes the making of this piece.