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Working across Time

Rephotographing Images of PlaceWorkshop Announcement

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007.A mash-up in time of photos by Ansel Adams (1943), Alvin Langdon Coburn (1911),and the Detroit Publishing Company (1903) of Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona.

The Arxiu Fotogrfic de Barcelona and Arqueologa del Punt de Vista are pleased to announceWorking across Time: Rephotographing Images of Place, a triple teaching activity, held by US

photographer Mark Klett. Working across Time will take place in November 2010 and will consist ofa semi-attendance workshop, a conference and a demonstration .

The activity is the premiere ofAfterFoto, a cycle of activities related with the production, managementand circulation of photographic legacy. The activities scheduled by AfterFoto call for a reflection onphotographs as part of our cultural and historical patrimony: stories, techniques, authorships, practices,preservation, accessibility, diffusion, archives; photographs as documents, as vestiges of history, as ourlegacy. How do we remember? How do we aspire to be remembered?

This joined initiative of the Arxiu Fotogrfic of Barcelona and Arqueologa del Punt de Vista is bornwith the objective to bring the photographic legacy closer to the people of Barcelona, while creatinglinks between the Archive and diverse groups related with photography in and outside the city. Theprogramme of AfterFoto is based on the photographic production the society generates and we in turnpreserve. Conceived as periodical events of a singular character, the majority of its activities will take

place at the installations of the Arxiu Fotogrfic de Barcelona, with guests a series of acclaimedinternational contributors.

Presentation

Rephotography is a meticulous genre that deals with photographing from the same point of view ascene that has already been registered. At first sight, it is all about providing evidence about the passageof time through the confrontation of various images, obtained in the same site but at different moments.Nevertheless, rephotography implies much more than just taking a photograph for a second time.Rephotography requires a thorough selection of historical material and an investigation, which willallow us to place our camera where somebody else had long ago placed his. This very fact converts thephotograph we capture into the subsidiary product of a meditation on three subjects: the original

photographer, the photographer who comes afterwards, and the viewer who observes both of them.

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Contents

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Details from the view at Point Sublime on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, basedon the panoramic drawing by William Holmes (1882). Background: William Henry Holmes, 1882. Sheets XV, XVI, XVII.Panorama of Point Sublime. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History ofthe Grand Canyon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

With photographic material from the rich collection of the Arxiu Fotogrfic and with the city ofBarcelona as the setting for their fieldwork, the participants in this workshop directed by Mark Klett

will have the opportunity to practice and explore the methodology of rephotography, while adjusting itto their own actual interests.

The workshop is composed of two parts: a three-day workshop where physical attendance is required,and a second six-week distant-learning part coordinated online. The participants will start therealization of their own rephotography projects on site, during the three-day workshop, and willcomplete them later during the six-week period, under the supervision of Mark Klett and thecoordination of APV.

The workshop is addressed to professionals from the fields of Photography, Art, History, Anthropology,Environmental Management, and other scientific and technical disciplines.

Mark Klett is a photographer living in Tempe, Arizona where he is a Regents Professor of Art atArizona State University. Klett is interested in the intersection of cultures, landscapes and time and hisbackground includes working as a geologist before turning to photography in the seventies. In 1984,Klett published Second View, a vast project that consisted of revisiting the sceneries of the Americanwest where renowned photographers, such as Timothy OSullivan, registered with their cameras duringthe first photographic surveys commissioned by the Federal government in the second half of the 19thcentury. With this project, Klett established three paramount elements in his perspective: themethodology necessary for developing the rigorous photographic genre of rephotography, the necessaryhuman resources to cover the ambitious purposes of his projects, and a discourse on the construction ofthe collective imagery. At the end of the nineties, Klett took up the same work and finally published hisacclaimed monography Third Views, Second Sights, which gathers together the original 19th centuryphotographs alongside the first rephotographs of the 1970s and those of the late nineties.

Mark Kletts work has been exhibited and published both in the United States and internationally for

over thirty years, and his photographs are held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. Klett isthe author of thirteen books including the recently released Saguaros (Radius Press and DAP, 2007),

After the Ruins(University of California Press 2006), Yosemite in Time(Trinity University Press, 2005),and Third Views, Second Sights(Museum of New Mexico Press 2004).

Arxiu Fotogrfic de Barcelona (www.bcn.cat/arxiu/fotografic/): Founded in 1931 and situated at thesecond floor of the ancient quarter of Sant Agust, the Arxiu conserves two million photographs withsubject the city of Barcelona, dating from 1839 to the present day. The Arxiu installations include aprint room, various work rooms, laboratories, seven deposits designed for the protection andpreservation of photographs and a new exhibition room, which hosts regular exhibitions from thepermanent collection.

Arqueologa del Punt de Vista (http://www.arqueologiadelpuntdevista.org) develops theoretical and

audiovisual projects, dealing with the analysis of the actual perception through the study and recoveryof resources, documents and technologies that represent visually previous eras.

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Workshop dates: November, 12-13-14 2010, 10am7pm.Where: The theoretical contents and the treatment of the photographs will

take place at the installations of the Arxiu Fotogrfic (Plaza Pons iClerch, 2, 2. 08003 Barcelona), while the fieldwork will be held inthe surrounding city areas.

Application prerequisites: Applications are accepted from photographers with creative andtechnique motivations, as well as from artists, historians andinvestigators, whose research encompasses the field of photography,the arts, social sciences and environmental management.

Workshop language: EnglishPlaces: 15-20 persons with a heterogeneous profile.Price: 400 Application submission deadline: Friday, November 5, 2010Contact: info@arqueologiadelpuntdevista.org Applications will be valid once full payment is received. The total amount of the applicationcorresponds to the fee of the workshop and has to be paid at the time of application. Applications will bevalid once payment of the total amount is received. Refunds are not possible. We do whatever we can toensure that the workshop will take place as advertised but we reserve the right to make changes orcancellations two weeks before its initiation. In the unlikely event that we have to cancel it due to

under-enrolment, you shall be refunded the full amount of your workshop fee.

AfterFoto is organized by: Arxiu Fotogrfic de Barcelona and Arqueologa del Punt de VistaThe project is directed and elaborated by: Arqueologa del Punt de VistaWith the support of: Institut de Cultura del Ayuntament de Barcelona

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