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After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and
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After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Mark Klett (Photographer); Contribution by Michael Lundgren

A collection of essays accompany this collection of photos of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire, juxtaposed with photos of the city today.


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How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five compelling historic photographs taken in the days following the 1906 earthquake and fires and precisely duplicated each photograph's vantage point. The result is an elegant and powerful comparison that challenges our preconceptions about time, history, and culture. "I think the pictures ask us to become aware of the extraordinary qualities of our own distinct moment in time. But it is a realization that a particular future is not guaranteed by the flow of time in any given direction." So says Mark Klett discussing this multilayered project in an illuminating interview included in this lavishly produced volume, which accompanies an exhibition at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006 features a vivid essay by noted environmental historian Philip Fradkin on the events surrounding and following the 1906 earthquake, which he describes as "the equivalent of an intensive, three-day bombing raid, complete with many tons of dynamite that acted as incendiary devices." A lyrical essay by acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit considers the meaning of ruins, resurrection, and the evolving geography and history of San Francisco.

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"After the Ruins is a remarkable achievement. A moving commemoration of a tragic centennial; the residual landscapes of San Francisco that beckon from these words and pictures remind us of history's power and its proximity. Klett, Fradkin, and Solnit are brilliant guides through San Francisco landscapes then and now."--William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West."

"There has never been a book on this subject with these perspectives and this depth. The combination of Fradkin's solid historical research with Solnit's illuminating historical insight combined with Klett's extensive rephotography breaks new ground."--Robert Dawson, photographer of Farewell Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream

"After the Ruins is, in some ways, a century in the making. It is well worth the wait: Klett and his colleagues continue to push the meaning, significance, and power of rephotography. In this poignant commemoration of urban tragedy, they have offered us a meditation on history, imagery, and landscape."--Jennifer A. Watts, Curator of Photographs, The Huntington Library

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  • Title After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
  • Author Mark Klett (Photographer); Contribution by Michael Lundgren
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 134
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Date 2006-03-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780520245563 / 0520245563
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 11 x 9.9 x 0.6 in (27.94 x 25.15 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Northern California
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Locality: San Francisco, California
  • Library of Congress subjects San Francisco (Calif.), San Francisco (Calif.) - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005018469
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.461

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Citations

  • Choice, 09/01/2006, Page 102

About the author

Mark Klett, Regent's Professor of Art at Arizona State University, is author of eleven books of photography, among them Third View: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West (2004), Revealing Territory (1992), and One City/Two Visions: San Francisco Panoramas 1878 and 1990 (1990). His photographs have been shown and are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Huntington Library. Philip Fradkin is author of ten acclaimed books on the American West including The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself (California 2004) and The Seven States of California (California, 1997). He shared a Pulitzer Prize while at the Los Angeles Times. Rebecca Solnit's previous books include River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2003), winner of the 2003 National Book Critic's Circle Award, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001), and Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West (California, 1999).
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