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Mark Klett
Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill1990

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Black and white photograph of an urban cityscape taken from a high rooftop, with carved stone architectural details at left and a sign reading 'Hotel Huntington' visible mid-distance
Gelatin silver print, elevated cityscape view featuring a Gothic Revival cathedral with twin towers and rose window at left, surrounded by mid-century commercial and residential buildings, with a bay visible on the horizon and an American flag on a flagpole in the foreground.
Gelatin silver print of a dense urban cityscape shot from an elevated angle, with a tall mid-century residential tower dominating the center, surrounded by lower mixed-use buildings, parked cars at street level, and a hilly skyline with mountains in the distance.
Gelatin silver print, elevated cityscape view with densely packed mid-century buildings, rooftops, and high-rises in the foreground, a bay and hilly island visible in the background under a pale sky.
Gelatin silver print, aerial cityscape with dense low-rise buildings extending toward a bay and distant hills, a tall modernist tower with vertical window bands rising at right, pale overcast sky above hazy water.
Gelatin silver print, elevated view of a tall white high-rise hotel tower with repeating horizontal window bands, surrounded by mid-century urban buildings, with a bay and distant hills visible in the background.
Gelatin silver print, elevated view of a dense urban skyline with a prominent pyramid-shaped skyscraper at center, surrounded by mid-rise and high-rise buildings, a bay with distant hills and a cargo ship visible in the background
Gelatin silver print of a dense urban skyline photographed from an elevated vantage point, dominated by a tall dark-clad skyscraper at center, with layered mid-rise and high-rise buildings receding toward a hazy bay and bridge in the background.
Black and white aerial photograph of a dense urban skyline, mid-century skyscrapers and low-rise commercial buildings receding toward a bay or harbor in the hazy distance, overcast sky above.
Gelatin silver print, elevated view of a dense urban skyline with mid-century high-rise towers dominating the center, lower commercial buildings in the foreground, and a harbor visible in the hazy distance; film border visible at edges.
Gelatin silver print, elevated view of a dense urban cityscape with mid-century commercial buildings in the foreground, a slender high-rise tower at center, and rolling hills visible in the hazy distance.
Gelatin silver print, elevated cityscape view looking across densely packed urban blocks of low and mid-rise buildings toward a cluster of skyscrapers in the middle distance, with rolling hills visible on the hazy horizon.
Gelatin silver print, elevated cityscape view with densely packed buildings receding toward hazy hills and a transmission tower on the horizon; decorative stone figures in the foreground at lower left and upper right frame the scene.
Artist or Maker
Mark Klett
Title
Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1990
Medium
Gelatin-silver prints
Dimensions
Image (each): 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.48 × 40.64 cm) Primary support (each): 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.48 × 40.64 cm) Overall: 21 1/2 × 17 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (54.61 × 43.5 × 3.49 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
M.2000.29.1-.13
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.