EL CAMINO DEL DIABLO

Much of Mark Kletts (born 1952) work as a photographer has centered on a conversation with historical images. For this project, Kle tt worked only with the account of a young mining engineer named Raphael Pumpelly who wrote of his journey through Arizona and Mexic o in 1861 on the Camino del Diablo or the road of the devil. Pumpelly found the territory lawless and filled with danger. The auth orities were virtually non-existent. Mexican laborers working in the silver mines south of Tucson were perpetually killing their Ang lo bosses. ...[Read more]