Mark Klett’s San Francisco Panorama in 1990

Mark Klett’s San Francisco Panorama in 1990Mark Klett’s San Francisco Panorama in 1990

Mark Klett’s San Francisco Panorama in 1990

“Cities change continuously, and it was a compelling challenge to compare modern-day San Francisco to the city Muybridge photographed over one hundred and ten years earlier. In the years between views, an earthquake and fire destroyed much of the city, and the building upon which the earlier panorama was made was replaced by a multi-story hotel.” (Mark Klett)

Mark Klett (b.1952)

Mark Klett (b.1952)

The exhibition features a San Francisco panorama that an acclaimed American photographer, Mark Klett, captured in 1990. Klett is renowned for his rephotography, which involves taking photographs of the same site after an interval of time. His rephotography projects concern some of Muybridge’s landscape photographs, including the 1878 San Francisco Panorama. Klett photographed the city from the same site where Muybridge had taken his panorama 112 years earlier. 

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Plate 1 of the San Francisco Panorama

Plate 1 of the San Francisco Panorama