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Under the dark cloth - Monument Valley

Photograph
1989 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Klett, Mark (photographer)
Place of origin
Arizona (photographed)
Utah (photographed)

A black and white photograph depicting a hand holding the exposed plate of an antique camera against a black cloth. The image on the camera plate depicts a view of Monument Valley, Arizona.


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Landscapes
Object type
Photograph
TitleUnder the dark cloth - Monument Valley (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver print
Paper
Gelatin-Silver
Brief description
Photograph by Mark Klett, 'Under the Dark Cloth - Monument Valley', gelatin-silver print, Arizona, Utah, 1989
Physical description
A black and white photograph depicting a hand holding the exposed plate of an antique camera against a black cloth. The image on the camera plate depicts a view of Monument Valley, Arizona.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40cm
  • Width: 50.5cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1994
Marks and inscriptions
Signed and inscribed with title in silver ink.
Gallery label
  • Mark Klett (born 1952) Under the Dark Cloth, Monument Valley 1989 Trained as a geologist, Klett revisited scenes documented by photographers during the extensive geological and geographical surveys of America in the 1860s and ’70s. Using the same historic photographic equipment, he chronicled the natural changes and human interference with the landscape that had occurred over the course of the century. Gelatin silver print Museum no. E.880-1994(23/7/2016-5/3/2017)
  • Photo London: Beneath the Surface Somerset House 20 May - 24 August Mark Klett (born 1952) Under the Dark Cloth – Monument Valley, 1989 Trained as a geologist, Klett revisited scenes documented by photographers during the extensive geological and geographical surveys of America in the 1860s and 1870s. Using the same historic photographic equipment, he chronicled the natural change and human interference with the landscape that had occurred over the course of the century. Gelatin silver print V&A Museum no. E.880–1994(20-5-2015)
Object history
Purchased through Pace/MacGill Gallery
Subjects depicted
Camera
Cloth
Butte
Landscape
Places depicted
Arizona
Utah
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1994 Mark Klett and Eadweard Muybridge, One city/two visions : San Francisco panoramas, 1878 and 1990, San Francisco, CA : Bedford Arts, Publishers, c1990. Mark Klett, Revealing territory : photographs of the southwest, Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1992. Mark Klett, Second view : the Rephotographic Survey Project, Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1984. Mark Klett, Traces of Eden : travels in the desert Southwest, Boston : David R. Godine, 1986. Mark Klett, Third Views, Second Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004. Mark Klett, Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2012. Mark Klett, After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, University of California Press, 2006.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.880-1994

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Record createdApril 3, 2009
Record URL
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