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Mark Klett (born 9 September 1952) is an American photographer.[1][2][3][4] His work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[5] the Museum of Fine Arts Houston[6] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[7]
Life[edit]
Klett was born in Albany, New York.[8] After graduating from St. Lawrence University with a B.S. in Geology in 1974, he worked as a photographer with the U.S. Geological Survey. In 1977, he completed the MFA program at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York studying with Nathan Lyons.[9]
He is a Regents Professor and teaches photography at Arizona State University.
Work[edit]
Klett’s photographic work focuses on the western landscape and man’s interaction with it.[10] In particular, his photographs respond to historic images and his projects explore relationships between time, change and perception.[11]
He is particularly known for his rephotography projects, recently with collaborator Byron Wolfe, which included western landscapes, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Glenn Canyon.[12][13]
Publications[edit]
Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project. With Ellen Manchester and JoAnn Verburg, University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
Traces of Eden: Travels in the Desert Southwest. David R. Godine, 1986.
Headlands: the Marin Coast at the Golden Gate. With Miles De Coster, Mike Mandel,Paul Metcalf, and Larry Sultan, University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
One City/Two Visions. Bedford Arts Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1990.
Photographing Oklahoma. 1889-1991. Oklahoma City Art Museum, 1991.
Revealing Territory. University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Capitol View: A New Panorama of Washington DC. With Merry Foresta, Smithsonian Institution and Book Studios, 1994.
Desert Legends: Restoring the Sonoran Borderlands. With Gary Paul Nabhan, Henry Holt, 1994.
The Black Rock Desert. With Bill Fox, University of Arizona Press, 2002. ISBN 0816521727.
Third Views, Second Sights, A Rephotographic Survey of the American West. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004. With Byron Wolfe. ISBN 0-89013-432-4.
Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers. With Rebecca Solnit and Byron Wolfe, Trinity University Press, 2005. ISBN 1-59534-042-4.
After the Ruins: Rephotographing the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. University of California Press, 2005. ISBN 0-520-24556-3.
Mark Klett: Saguaros by Gregory McNamee and Mark Klett. Radius Books, 2007. ISBN 1-934435-00-7.
The Half Life of History, with William Fox. Radius Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1934435397
Reconstructing the View, the Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, with Byron Wolfe, Rebecca A. Senf, Stephen J. Pyne. University of California Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0520273900
Camino del Diablo, Radius Books, 2017. With Raphael Pumpelly ISBN 978-1942185017
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado, with Rebecca Solnit and Byron Wolfe. Radius Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1942185253
Seeing Time: Forty Years of Photographs, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Keith E. Davis, Rebecca A. Senf. University of Texas Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1477320235
Awards[edit]
1979: Emerging Artist Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts[citation needed]
1982: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[citation needed]
1984: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[citation needed]
1993: Photographer of the Year from Friends of Photography[citation needed]
Japan/U.S. Creative Artist Fellowship[citation needed]
2001: Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University[14]
2004: Guggenheim Fellowship[15]
Collections[edit]
Klett’s work is held in the following permanent collections:
Museum of Fine Arts Houston[6]
Museum of Modern Art, New York: 33 prints (as of 26 September 2021)[7]
Smithsonian American Art Museum[5]