Klett & Wolfe

Yosemite in Time

Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers by Mark Klett, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron Wolfe.

Hardcover, 144 pages. Trinity University Press.  You can read a review at PhotoEye Books. Here's a QuickTime slideshow with several pages from the book (15 pages, 1.8 megabytes).

Publisher's Description
Yosemite is a world-famous destination that has attracted celebrated photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams, along with environmental organizations, rock climbers, and tourists. Yosemite in Time puts this park in a new light with re-photographs of some of the most enduring images taken at Yosemite, and three essays by noted cultural critic Rebecca Solnit. The photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America's conception of wilderness, examining how the place was appropriated by its early Euro-American visitors and showing how our conceptions of landscape have altered and how land has changed — or not — over time. Arresting and incisive, Yosemite in Time is an intimate reconsideration of a park that millions of people hold dear. 

-"Lovely and important." – San Francisco Chronicle

"A fresh look at Yosemite's iconic status" – Marin Magazine

"Beautifully rendered." – National Geographic Adventure 

Panorama of a ghost river

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2001. Panorama of a ghost river, made over 100 meters and two days beginning and ending with Muybridge’s mammoth plates No. 11 and No. 12. 

Muybridge’s pictures courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: Full size = 24” x 120”, smaller size = 16” x 72”

Lake Tenaya panorama

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2002. Four views from four times and one shoreline, Lake Tenaya. 

Left to right: Eadweard Muybridge, 1872; Ansel Adams, c. 1942; Edward Weston, 1937. Back panels: Swatting high-country mosquitoes, 2002. 

Muybridge’s picture courtesy of the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Adams’s picture, Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ©Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Weston’s picture, Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ©1981 Arizona Board of Regents. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 24” x 66”

Ed to Ed panorama

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2002. Above Lake Tenaya, connecting views from Edward Weston to Eadweard Muybridge. 

Left: Edward Weston, Juniper, 1936. Right: Eadweard Muybridge, Ancient Glacier Channel, at Lake Tenaya, Mammoth Plate No. 47, 1872. Weston’s picture courtesy Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ©1981 Arizona Board of Regents. Muybridge’s picture courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: Large size = 24” x 103”, small size = 16” x 60”

Sentinel Dome panorama

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2003. Panorama from Sentinel Dome connecting three views by Carleton Watkins. 

Left insert: From the Sentinel Dome, Down the Valley, Yosemite, 1865–66. Center insert: Yosemite Falls from the Sentinel Dome, 1865–66. Right insert: The Domes, from the Sentinel Dome, 1865–66. Watkins’s pictures courtesy Jeffrey of Fraenkel. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions =  24” x 72”

Weston's Tenaya panorama

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2003. Above Lake Tenaya, connecting two 1940 views by Edward Weston. 

Left insert: Junipers, Lake Tenaya, Sierra Nevada, 1940. Right insert: Lake Tenaya Country, 1940.  

Weston’s pictures courtesy Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ©1981 Arizona Board of Regents. Muybridge’s picture courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 24” x 96”

Four views from Panoramic Rock

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2002. Four views from “Panorama Rock,” an obscure outcrop off the Panorama Cliff Trail: two rephotographs, a speculation on Muybridge’s missing plate No. 39, and another photograph added to the left. 

Inserts: Eadweard Muybridge, 1872. Cloud’s Rest. Valley of the Yosemite. No. 40; and Glacier Channels. Valley of the Yosemite. From Panorama Rock. No. 41. (Combined to form overlapping views.) Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: Full size = 24” x 78”,  smaller size = 16” x 54”

Glacier Point mashup

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2003. View from the handrail at Glacier Point overlook, connecting views from Ansel Adams to Carleton Watkins. (Watkins’s photograph shows the distorting effects of his camera’s movements as he focused the scene.)

Left insert: Ansel Adams, c. 1935. Right insert: Carleton E. Watkins, 1861. Adams’s picture, Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ©Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Watkins’s picture courtesy of Jeffrey Fraenkel. 

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions = 24” x 54”