Photography, Place, Environment
1 total work
Rephotography is a common means of exploring the relationship between time and place. Coined by Mark Klett in the 1970s, at its core is a seemingly simple task: find the location in an existing photograph, revisit it and make a new image from the same vantage point. Whether by design or coincidence, rephotography can draw attention to changes in one's surroundings or elicit nostalgia for places and people lost to time, but it can also trigger change in a practitioner's approach. Differentiating from prescriptive methods of recording place (e.g. repeat photography), rephotography here is examined in relation to a convergence of factors within contemporary visual culture: the shift toward digitizing archival images, changes in the way images are shared, and the increasing autonomy of the 'everyday camera user'. Regardless of status or skill, the book invites those with cameras to not only think about how they represent change in situ, but to also consider the impact of such exploration upon their practice.