Celia Wilson
VISUAL LITERACY
Research Task 06 - Simulation and Photography
The Third View:
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Project began in 1997 and completed fieldwork in 2000
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They revisit the sites of historic Western American landscape photographs
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Create new images and collects materials useful in interpreting the scenes and the passage of time
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Created specifically to investigate changes that have occurred since the landscapes were last photographed
Mark Klett:
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American photographer
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Born 9th September 1952
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Creates projects that explore relationships between time, change and perception
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Been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally for over thirty-five years, and his work is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide
(Anon, n.d)
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First looked at the work of Timothy O’Sullivan (1868), Comstock Mines, Virginia City, NV - wet plate process
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Went to exact same spot to take his photograph (passing of time/change) (1979)
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Visited again (third view) to show further changes (1998)
(Mark Klett, 2004)
Why Classified as Postmodern?
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Demonstrates the progress of time
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Land has been re-claimed (purity)
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Shows how mines have been abandoned, no longer mine as much in the ground but the sea (changes)
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Image itself is original however the survey of the construct mines aren’t
How do the images question the truth/reality?
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Documentation of time
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Reality up until 1998, not been photographed since
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Demonstrates the reality of change – how the land has changed over time / the way the photograph is taken
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Can’t be as truthful, second/third images taken closer to the mountain, with the third image cannot see what is behind, buildings could still be there