Byron Wolfe, 2007. Straddling the water canal that generates electricity for the guest quarters, Las Nubes, Guatemala.
Left: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Drying coffee berries on the patio – Las Nubes. Courtesy of Stanford Special Collections.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 12"h x 28"w
Byron Wolfe, 2007. At the site of "Loading coffee for shipment" - a version of which can be seen deep in the patio shadows, Las Nubes, Guatemala.
Left: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Loading coffee for shipment – Las Nubes. Courtesy of Stanford Special Collections.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 12"h x 28"w
Byron Wolfe, 2007. A temporary waterfall created by diverting a natural stream with rocks, Las Nubes, Guatemala.
Left: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Baranca at Las Nubes – Guatemala. Courtesy of Stanford Special Collections.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 12"h x 28"w
Byron Wolfe, 2010. Overlapping views of Las Nubes coffee finca with Volcánes Santa Mariá (center) and Santo Tomás (right) in the background, Las Nubes, Guatemala.
Left: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Picking coffee at Las Nubes. Right: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Coffee Plantation at Las Nubes.Courtesy of the California State Library.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 15"h x 34.25"w
Byron Wolfe, 2007. Left: Balanced against a belfry overlooking "Hacienda William Nelson," San Isidro, Guatemala. Right: A view of the church tower; fogged from perspiration that leaked into the camera.
Inset: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875 - 76. Coffee plantation at San Isidro. Courtesy Stanford Special Collections.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 20" h x 37" w
Byron Wolfe, 2007. Perched on a coffee pickers' ladder looking back into Muybridge's "Coffee Planter's Residence - San Isidro, Guatemala."
Insets left and right : Eadweard Muybridge, 1875 - 76. Coffee plantation - San Isidro. (note: most of the figures in the two insets are the same, just mirrored.) Courtesy Stanford Special Collections.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 16"h x 37"w
Byron Wolfe, 2007. Crossing the bridge after the latex harvest, San Isidro, Guatemala.
Back: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875 - 76. A roadside scene - San Isidro. Courtesy Stanford Special Collections.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 15"h x 20.5"w
Byron Wolfe, 2010. Photographic palimpsest in reverse; the only unobstructed and remaining sights from Las Bóvedas in 2010 and 1875, Panamá City, Panamá.
Back: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Panama from the South Bastion. Courtesy of the California State Library.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 15"h x 21.5"w
Byron Wolfe, 2010. Beneath the Presidential Palace (with a military escort), Gorgas, Cahuate, and Pelicans circling, Panamá City, Panamá.
Back: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. A walk around the walls at Panama. Courtesy of the California State Library.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 17"h x 24"w
Byron Wolfe, 2010. Loitering outside the Presidential Palace, Casco Viejo, Panamá.
Insets: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Palace of the President – Panama. Courtesy of Stanford Special Collections.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 44"h x 66"w
Byron Wolfe, 2010. From the window of a private security firm near the Presidential Palace, Panamá City, Panamá.
Left: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Panama. Courtesy of Stanford Special Collections.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 59"w
Byron Wolfe, 2010. "Puente Matadero" (bridge to the slaughterhouse) amidst construction fueled by the Panamá Canal and international banking, Panamá Viejo, 2010.
Inset: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875. Bridge near the beach - Old Panama. Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 59"h x 44"w
Byron Wolfe, 2010. Gazing back upon a modest tree, Panamá City, Panamá.
Back: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Old road to Porto Bello - Old Panama. Courtesy of Stanford University Special collections.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 18"h x 33"w
Byron Wolfe, 2010. Las Monjas and suburbs, Panamá Viejo, Panamá.
Right: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Las Monjas - Old Panama. Courtesy of Stanford University Special collections.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 12"h x 48.5"w
Byron Wolfe, 2007. Beside the "Meganet Internet," café, Totonicapan, Guatemala.
Inset: Eadweard Muybridge, 1875-76. Totonicapan, Guatemala. Courtesy of Stanford Special Collections.
Individual album page from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee, Illustrated by Muybridge, 1876.
Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24"h x 76"w