Entrée principale:

Klett, Mark, 1952- photographer.

Titre et auteur:

Mark Klett : El Camino del Diablo.

Publication:

Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2016]
New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
©2016

Description:

67 pages, 172 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portrait, fascsimiles ; 32 cm + 21 color photographs of saquaro cactus on leaf folded accordian-style (28.5 x 388.5 cm folded to 28.5 x 18.5 cm)

Notes:
Cover title.
Photography by Mark Klett; text by Raphael Pumpelly.
"El Camino del Diablo or 'Road of the Devil'"--Page preceding colophon.
Accompanying leaf of photos inserted in sleeve mounted on inside back cover.
Map on endpaper.
Includes facsimile reprint of: Across America and Asia : notes of a five years' journey around the world and of residence in Arizona, Japan, and China / by Raphael Pumpelly. Third edition, revised. New York : Leypoldt & Holt, 1870 (1st sequence of 67 pages).
Accompanied by 21 color views of saquaro cactus printed on a sheet that is folded accordion-style (inserted in back pocket).
Across America and Asia : notes of a five years' journey around the world and of residence in Arizona, Japan, and China / by Raphael Pumpelly. Third edition, revised. New York : Leypoldt & Holt, 1870 (69 pages) -- El Camino del Diablo.
Kopie Across America and Asia / Raphael Pumpelly.

Résumé:

"Much of Mark Klett's (born 1952) work as a photographer has centered on a conversation with historical images. For this project, Klett worked only with the account of a young mining engineer named Raphael Pumpelly who wrote of his journey through Arizona and Mexico in 1861 on the Camino del Diablo or "the road of the devil." Pumpelly found the territory lawless and filled with danger. The authorities were virtually non-existent. Mexican laborers working in the silver mines south of Tucson were perpetually killing their Anglo bosses. The Apache Indians led constant raids and ambushes. By Pumpelly's account "murder was the order of the day ... committed by Americans upon Americans, Mexicans and Indians; by Mexicans upon Americans; and the hand of the Apache was, not without much reason, against both of the intruding races." He escaped death several times, often by a matter of minutes. Traveling 130 miles of open desert, Pumpelly proceeded with both apprehension of the dangers at hand, and appreciation of the natural beauty that surrounded him. 152 years later, Klett traversed the same route, making photographs in response to Pumpelly's words. Unable to trace the engineer's exact steps, Klett created images that are not literal references to specific places or events. Rather he sought to produce a more poetic narrative to their shared experience of the Arizona desert, along the common route that connects the two through time. Today, most of the Camino is located on the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range and the border is a militarized zone constantly patrolled by government agents and crisscrossed by air and ground forces practicing for war. Camino travelers often hide from detection, be they immigrants or drug smugglers moving North under the cover of night or the ruggedness of the terrain. Indian reservations create boundaries and mark other cultural divides. A still hostile climate kills many who dare travel in hot weather and people die each year on the Camino, most from exposure. Yet the Camino also crosses one of the most beautiful and still wild regions of the Sonoran Desert. The Camino has an occupied feel that registers the history of violence and surveillance along the border. There's a legacy of human presence, sometimes tragedy, left only in traces. Signs of passage remain for centuries in Arizona's dry climate. It is a place located at the compelling intersection of transience, danger and beauty"--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781942185017 (hardcover)
1942185014 (hardcover)

Sujet:

Pumpelly, Raphael, 1837-1923 Travel Arizona.
Klett, Mark, 1952-
Pumpelly, Raphael, 1837-1923
Klett, Mark 1952-
Landscapes Sonoran Desert Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.
Landscape photography Arizona.
Paysages Sonora, Désert de Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie de paysages Arizona.
art photography.
Landscape photography
Landscapes
Travel
Landschaftsfotografie
Wüste
El Camino del Diablo (Ariz. and Mexico) Pictorial works.
Arizona Description and travel.
El Camino del Diablo (Ariz. et Mexique) Ouvrages illustrés.
Arizona Descriptions et voyages.
Arizona
North America El Camino del Diablo
North America Sonoran Desert

Classification/genre:

Pictorial works.
Facsimiles (reproductions)

Vedettes secondaires:

Pumpelly, Raphael, 1837-1923. Across America and Asia.

Camino del Diablo

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 297135
Cote: BIB 243460
Statut: Disponible

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 298039
Cote: BIB 243460
Notes: folded sheet
Statut: Disponible