The Autry National Center invites visitors to view the majestic Grand Canyon through large-scale, sweeping panoramas that marry 21st-century color photographs with historic drawings and images. Charting the Canyon: Photographs by Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe explores this celebrated place of dramatic beauty, featuring the vivid colors, breathtaking vistas, and jaw-dropping canyon depths that have lured photographers to Northern Arizona for years. The canyon is perhaps the world's best "photo op," as it is not only a national park and international tourist attraction but also a natural wonder and sacred ground.
In 2007, Mark Klett, a Regents Professor at Arizona State University, and Byron Wolfe, a former student of Klett's and now a Lantis University Professor at California State University at Chico, headed to the Grand Canyon to re-envision the many images made at the site over the past 150 years. During two summers of fieldwork, they identified the exact locations portrayed in early photographs and drawings. From those geographic points they created new photographs that incorporate the original view. Digital versions of the historic images are inserted within the contemporary photograph, creating combined images that convey the big picture surrounding the earlier artists' depicted view.
Art, Photography, and the American West
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe discuss “Charting the Canyon”
Saturday, October 17th
1:30 to 3:00
Autry National Center, Griffith Park
FREE
Photographers Mark Klett and Bryon Wolfe have been working together for several years, photographing the American West. In this discussion, they will focus on how the Grand Canyon has been depicted by artists, and how these images have come to influence how we see this iconic place, helping to put the “Grand” in the Canyon. They will also demonstrate, through animations, their dynamic approach to visualizing the connections and ideas behind their work.
Charting the Canyon: Photographs by Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe is sponsored in part by:
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