STOPPING TIME: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake...

STOPPING TIME: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe by Peter Goin, essays by C. Elizabeth Raymond, Robert E. Blesse (University of New Mexico Press: $25). Goin studied old photographs taken between the 1880s and the 1930s, then tried to shoot the same image from the same site, to illustrate the changes the Lake Tahoe region has undergone. Much of the region was deforested during the ensuing decades to provide timber and fuel for the mines of Virginia City. Goin’s often striking black-and-white photographs offer a reassuring message: Despite the uncontrolled logging of the late 19th Century and the runaway development of the ‘70s and ‘80s, secondary growth has covered many of the once- denuded hillsides, restoring much of the splendor that dazzled early visitors, including Mark Twain.