The Lens of Time: A Repeat Photography of Landscape Change in the Canadian Rockies
By Cliff White and E.J. (Ted) Hart

$69.95
November 2007
ISBN 978-155238-237-0
9.5" x 11"
200 p.p.
Colour and B&W Photographs throughout
Parks and Heritage Series No. 10
Environmental History, National Parks
 

 

About the Book

The Lens of Time is a unique collaboration between two observers who have, for more than twenty-five years, been examining landscape change in the Canadian Rockies – national park biologist Cliff White and Canadian Rockies historian Ted Hart. Working with historical photographs, White has retraced the steps of the original photographers and taken new shots in the same locales, a technique known as “repeat photography.” Comparing these images side-by-side, the authors show the dramatic changes to the Rockies landscape that have occurred over the years.

The sets of photographs generally follow ecological regions moving west from Calgary and the foothills, ascending through the low elevation montane zone of Banff National Park, upwards into the lower and upper subalpine. The authors then follow the historic photographers’ routes for brief forays onto the west slopes of the Rockies in the Columbia River watershed of British Columbia, and east into the Front Ranges along the Red Deer and North Saskatchewan rivers. Moving north, the photographs depict the high windswept alpine zone and glacial ice of the Columbia Icefield, before passing through Jasper National Park and turning eastward to descend to the parkland region at Edmonton, Alberta.

Useful captions describe the landscape changes visible in each “then and now” view, and five essays more fully explore the historical, political, and ecological processes at work. Illustrated throughout with striking images, The Lens of Time is at once a showcase for the beauty of the Rocky Mountain landscape and a valuable source of information about ecological change in this world-famous region.
 

 

About the Author
Cliff White is a biologist with Parks Canada, based in Banff, Alberta. A fourth-generation Banffite, he has a PhD in forest ecology from the University of British Columbia.
E.J. (Ted) Hart is the executive director of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, Alberta. Ted has been actively involved in the archival and museological fields of Canadian Rockies history for nearly thirty-five years, and has served as mayor of the town of Banff.
 

 

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