KLETT, MARK. After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Text by Michael Lundgren et al.; 134 pp., roughly 50 color and 50 b&w plates. Oblong 4to, cloth. Berkeley. Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, in association with San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums, 2006.
This fascinating rephotography project brings past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, comparing 48 historical photographs taken in the days following the 1906 earthquake with photographs taken from the same vantage point 100 years later. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Franciso.