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Las Nubes - straddling the water canal

Straddling the canal

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

Las Nubes - "Loading coffee" in the shadows

Straddling the canal

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

Las Nubes - a temporary waterfall

The central office

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

Las Nubes - overlapping views of volcán Santa Mariá

Overlapping volcanoes

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

Balanced against a belfry - San Isidro looking North

Isidro North

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

Perched on a coffee pickers' ladder - San Isidro looking South

Isidro South

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

After the latex harvest - San Isidro

Isidro North

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

Photographic palimpsest in reverse

One sky, two coasts

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

Beneath the Presidential Palace

Beneath the Palace

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

Loitering outside the President's Palace

President's Palace

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

Private security

Near the palace

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

Puente Matadero (bridge to the slaughterhouse)

Puente Matadero

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

Puente del Rey - Panamá

Trees around the bridge to Porto Bello

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

Las Monjas - Panamá

Trees around the bridge to Porto Bello

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

An elevated view of the plaza at Totonicapan

Meganet Internet

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

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