© Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Radius Books, 2018
© Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Radius Books, 2018
© Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Radius Books, 2018
© Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Radius Books, 2018
© Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Radius Books, 2018
© Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Radius Books, 2018
DROWNED RIVER
The Death + Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Radius Books, 2018
Drowned River is a book about climate change, but also about how photography can describe beauty and trouble simultaneously, about depth and shallowness, about what it takes to understand a place and to come to terms with the enormous scale of the changes we have set in motion.
"Their starting point was Eliot Porter’s landmark book of color photography, The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon the Colorado, published by the Sierra Club in 1963 as a political statement about what had been lost under the dam’s waters and why it should never happen again. Their ending point is the reemergence of the river and the rise of questions about climate, the fate of the southwest, the folly of human endeavors to control nature, and the possibility of seeing these places and problems in new ways.
"Their starting point was Eliot Porter’s landmark book of color photography, The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon the Colorado, published by the Sierra Club in 1963 as a political statement about what had been lost under the dam’s waters and why it should never happen again. Their ending point is the reemergence of the river and the rise of questions about climate, the fate of the southwest, the folly of human endeavors to control nature, and the possibility of seeing these places and problems in new ways.
Like previous collaborative work using historic images, Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe retrace the physical locations where Porter made his photographs, now mostly submerged by the lake’s waters, often as deep as 400 feet beneath the surface. Unlike previous projects, this work is not a rephotographic examination of his earlier sites or scenes; by necessity, this effort involves making entirely new images in response to the original Porter works. Rebecca Solnit’s accompanying text meditates on meanings and histories, drawing from both the trio’s explorations of the place and archival research." – Radius Books
Photography by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Introduction by Michael Brune
Essay by Rebecca Solnit
Essay by Rebecca Solnit
Hardcover / 11.25 x 13
80 images / 212 pages
80 images / 212 pages
Text and images courtesy of Radius Books
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