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Call Number:

PH-00100

Collection Name:

Rephotographic Survey Project Photography Collection

Creator:

Dingus, Rick (1951 - )

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 (1821 - 1882)

Hague and Emmons

Hillers, John K. (1843 - 1925)

Jackson, William Henry (1843 - 1942)

Klett, Mark (1952 - )

O'Sullivan, Timothy H. (1835 - 1882)

Russell, Andrew J. (1830 - 1902)

No. of Items:

240 photographs

Span Dates:

1977-1979

Description:

The collection consists of 240 silver gelatin prints from the Rephotographic Survey Project (RSP). The project, which ran from 1977 to 1979. was initiated by Mark Klett (American, born 1952), was to re-photograph landscapes and scenes in the western United States (U.S.) that were originally photographed for the U.S. Geological Survey by noted nineteenth-century photographers. The photographs in the collection are modern prints of the original photographs paired with photographs by contemporary photographers of the same scenes. Based on extensive research by Ellen Manchester, the contemporary photographs were made under nearly identical situations so as to reflect time of year, framing, and vantage point of the original images. Each box contains a list of RSP negative numbers for the prints.

Nineteenth-century photographers whose work is included are William Henry Jackson, Timothy O’Sullivan, Russell, Gardner, and Hiller. The twentieth-century rephotographers include Mark Klett, JoAnn Verburg, Gordon Bushaw, and Rick Dingus.

A copy of the published book that resulted from the project, titled Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984), is located in Center's library (q TR 660.5 S43 1984 HRC-P). It reproduces all of these images, and it has a catalog of all of the prints by negative number, including site locations.

Accession No(s):

985:0021:0001-0240

Location(s):

Rephotographic Survey Project Box 1 (985:0021:0001-0054)
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Rephotographic Survey Project Box 2 (985:0021:0055-0118)
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Rephotographic Survey Project Box 3 (985:0021:0119-0166)
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Rephotographic Survey Project Box 4 (985:0021:0167-0240)
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