THIRD VIEWS: inferior SIGHTS A PHOTOGRAPHIC scrutinize OF THE AMERICAN WEST PHOTOGRAPHS on JOHN GANIS.

THIRD VIEWS: inferior SIGHTS

A PHOTOGRAPHIC scrutinize OF THE AMERICAN WEST

PHOTOGRAPHS on JOHN GANIS, POEMS BY DR STANLEY DIAMOND, INTRODUCTION by means of ROBERT SOBIESLKI, AFTERWARD BY GEORGE F THOMPSON STOCKPORT (ENGLAND): DEWI LEWIS PUBLISHING, 2004/144PP/$50 (HB)

Third Views, next to the first Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West by way of Mark Klett, Kyle Bajakian, William Fox Michael Marshall, Toshi Ueshina, Byron Wolfe Museum of strange Mexico Press/The Center for American Places 238pp+CD/$60

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"Third Views is the issue of curiosity about time and change, photography, and a desire to re-experience dynamic western landscape." It is the consequence to the work of the first Rephotographic review of which Mark Klett is the no other than original member remaining. In the 1970's Third Views, revisited the locations of famous landscape photographs taken in the west during the four major geographical and geological scrutinizes of the new territories that followed the Civil War. The first Rephotographic examine of the American West revealed more than was first awaited The presence of man and "civilization" had become more visible in a certain number of cases, in others it had surprisingly reced Erosion had played its part too. The most interesting discovery yet may have been the fact that an of the photographers of the 19th centenary surveys had not soleybeen documentarians. common specific 1869 image of Witches stone in Weber Valley (Utah) from Timothy O'Sullivan clearly indicated that the photographer had tilted his view-camera for reason that looked more esthetic than documentarian.

Third Views, other Sights, the book and the CD that accompanies it, display side according to side (or in layers in the case of the CD) the 19th hundred images, and the same locations rephotographed in the 1970 and again in the late 1990 As count uponed the changes between the views of the 70 and 90 are not always obvious. However many just discovered sites have been included in this later episode of the Rephotographic scan that had not been recorded in the 1970 In spite of the interesting contented of the book (especially for the readers who not ever came across a copy of next to the first Views, now a rare out-of-print book) the remarkable quality of this work lies in its interactive CD and the to a high degree ingenious use of the material that it contains. Available for the two Mac and PC platforms forward the same CD, the digital document comprises body s a type of travelog, and images. The technique used to display the images, comparing different stages in the evolution of western landscapes by means of close-ups, panoramas, superimpositions pasted into a broader landscape that gives them geographical adjoining matter is definitely the most playful and educational part of the brew It turns Third Views from what could have been a slightly repetitious close into a very enticing just discovered medium work and document. frequently can be said here about Klett's dedication and persistance in a throw out that, with this new release, should become a must-have in the libraries of anyone interested in landscape photography and/or the American West.

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