Sydney Laurence in Juneau
Part of a 2012 slide show for Juneau-Douglas City Museum on Alaskan landscape painter Sydney Laurence. I co-presented with Mike…
2012 | Richard Carstensen | 17 minutes
Repeat photography
Sometimes abbreviated RP, repeat photography is the art and science of precisely retaking historical photographs in order to document, analyze and understand change. We prioritize well-captured and reliably relocated scenes, offering opportunities to examine successional change in vegetational communities, and in some cases landform evolution.
Abandoned gold-rush town of Dyea, near Skagway. 2005 retake of 1899 photo, by Kathy Hocker and Karl Gurcke.
The map below shows locations of historic photos—both ground-based (red triangles) and aerial obliques (black arrows)—mostly by the US Navy in 1926 & 1929. Symbols point in the direction the photo was taken. Clicking on an arrow opens a pop-up with information about the photo and a thumbnail. Clicking on that thumbnail opens a medium-resolution view. Thanks to support from Kim Homan, formerly with the Southeast Alaska GIS Library, for posting this collection. The host is ESRI’s ArcGISonline. By clicking ‘view larger map’ you move to their site.
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Historical aerials of Southeast communities
In 2011, Cathy Pohl and I received a drive with 22,000 scanned air photos taken by the Navy in 1948.…
2011 | Richard Carstensen | 35 minutes
1867-2017: 150 years of change
Background paper for 3 banners commissioned by the Juneau Douglas City Museum, showing changes to iconic landscapes of Áak’w Aaní…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 41 Pages
Asx’ée (Eagle Beach) maps & historical series
I created an early version of this compilation while still living at the Scout camp at Asx’ée, twisted tree (Eagle River),…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 33pages
Documenting change through repeat photography in Southeast Alaska
Carefully framed retakes of historical photographs documenting vegetation and landform change in response to natural or human disturbance. . Due…
2005/2013 | Richard Carstensen, Kathy Hocker | 39 pages