Today, Carol and I made a visit to the Phoenix Art Museum to see "Charting the Canyon: The Photography of Klett and Wolfe.
I was attracted to this special exhibit because of my love of photography, and its Arizona subject matter.
Photographers Mark Klett, and Bryon Wolfe have an unique talent for taking famous 19th century photographs, and juxtaposing them inside a vivid, colorful, current scene of the exact same place. The above example merges two photographs from William Bell (1872), inside a contemporary photograph of the exact same place.
Our favorite composition, which we don't have a photograph to show you, took a beautiful, and meticulous drawing (map) of the Grand Canyon, which they then interspersed current colorful photographs throughout the map. I would guess that this particular composition was 8 feet long.
Here, at the Phoenix Art Museum's website, is a little more information, and four short videos from the artists, as they explain their works.
All in all, there are 30 photographs in this exhibit, and we found it to be a most enjoyable experience.
