After the ruins, 1906 and 2006 : rephotographing the San Francisco earthquake and fire / Mark Klett ; with Michael Lundgren ; essays by Philip L. Fradkin and Rebecca Solnit, and an interview with the photographer by Karin Breuer.

After the ruins, 1906 and 2006 : rephotographing the San Francisco earthquake and fire / Mark Klett ; with Michael Lundgren ; essays by Philip L. Fradkin and Rebecca Solnit, and an interview with the photographer by Karin Breuer.

9780520244344 (alk. paper)
0520244346 (alk. paper)
9780520245563 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520245563 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

©2006

English

134 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 x 29 cm

F869.S343 K58 2006

979.4/61051/0074

How 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, photographer Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in 45 photographs taken in the days following the 1906 earthquake and fires, and precisely duplicated each photograph's vantage point. The result is a powerful comparison that challenges our preconceptions about time, history, and culture. Features an 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."--Publisher description.

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition After the ruins, 1906 and 2006 : rephotographing the San Francisco earthquake and fire, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, December 17, 2005, to June 4, 2006."

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