Mark Klett Explained

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

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

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

• 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. .
• Third Views, Second Sights, A Rephotographic Survey of the American West. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004. With Byron Wolfe. .
• Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers. With Rebecca Solnit and Byron Wolfe, Trinity University Press, 2005. .
• After the Ruins: Rephotographing the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. University of California Press, 2005. .
• Mark Klett: Saguaros by Gregory McNamee and Mark Klett. Radius Books, 2007. .
• The Half Life of History, with William Fox. Radius Books, 2011.
• 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.
  • Camino del Diablo, Radius Books, 2017. With Raphael Pumpelly Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado, with Rebecca Solnit and Byron Wolfe. Radius Books, 2018.
• Seeing Time: Forty Years of Photographs, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Keith E. Davis, Rebecca A. Senf. University of Texas Press, 2020.

Awards

• 1979: Emerging Artist Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts
• 1982: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1984: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1993: Photographer of the Year from Friends of Photography
• Japan/U.S. Creative Artist Fellowship
• 2001: Regents' Professor, Arizona State University^[14]
• 2004: Guggenheim Fellowship^[15]

Collections

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]

External links

• • The collaborative works of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
• Collection of Mark Klett photos at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.

Notes and References

1. News: ART REVIEW; Photographs of Time and the Desert. Genocchio. Benjamin. 29 August 2004. The New York Times. 7. 26 June 2011.
2. Book: Warren, Lynne. Encyclopedia of 20th century photography. 26 June 2011. 2006. CRC Press. 978-0-415-97665-7. 880–. American Mark Klett is among the most accomplished landscape photographers in the ranks of twentieth century American.....
3. Book: Levere. Douglas. Yochelson. Bonnie. Abbott. Berenice. New York changing: revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York. 26 June 2011. 2005-02-01. Princeton Architectural Press. 978-1-56898-473-5. 13–.
4. News: PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW; Tricky Attempts to Balance Esthetics and Politics. Hagen. Charles. 14 June 1992. The New York Times. 27. 26 June 2011.
5. Web site: Mark Klett Smithsonian American Art Museum . americanart.si.edu.
6. Web site: Mark Klett: The Hangar that held the bomber Enola Gay. mfah.org.
7. Web site: 2021-09-26. Mark Klett. The Museum of Modern Art.
8. Web site: kopeikingallery.com. www.kopeikingallery.com. 2018-03-21.
9. Web site: Mark Klett . International Center of Photography . en . 31 January 2018.
10. Web site: Photographer Mark Klett captures the impact of time and people on the Western landscape . Phoenix Home & Garden . 2 December 2020.
11. Web site: Mark Klett: Ideas About Time ASU Art Museum . asuartmuseum.asu.edu . 2021-08-25 . 2021-08-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210825051550/https://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/exhibitions/traveling/mark-klett-ideas-about-time . dead .
12. Web site: Book Reviews: Reconstructing the View . blog.photoeye.com/.
13. Klett . Mark . Rothman . Aaron . Views Across Time . Places Journal . 10.22269/110711 . 11 July 2011. 2011 . free .
14. Web site: View ASU faculty members who won the Regents Professor award. 8 February 2017. 4 October 2013. 5 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131005000505/https://provost.asu.edu/regents. dead.
15. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Mark Klett . gf.org.