Mark Klett
Mark Klett (born 9 September 1952) is an American
Life
Klett was born in
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. ISBN 0816521727.
- Third Views, Second Sights, A Rephotographic Survey of the American West. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004. With ISBN 0-89013-432-4.
- Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers. With 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 ISBN 978-0520273900
- Camino del Diablo, Radius Books, 2017. With ISBN 978-1942185017
- Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado, with 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
- 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
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]
References
- ^ Genocchio, Benjamin (29 August 2004). "ART REVIEW; Photographs of Time and the Desert". The New York Times. p. 7. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-415-97665-7. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
American Mark Klett is among the most accomplished landscape photographers in the ranks of twentieth century American....
- ISBN 978-1-56898-473-5. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ Hagen, Charles (14 June 1992). "PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW; Tricky Attempts to Balance Esthetics and Politics". The New York Times. p. 27. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ a b "Mark Klett | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
- ^ a b "Mark Klett: The Hangar that held the bomber Enola Gay". mfah.org.
- ^ a b "Mark Klett". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ "kopeikingallery.com". www.kopeikingallery.com. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ "Mark Klett". International Center of Photography. 31 January 2018.
- ^ "Photographer Mark Klett captures the impact of time and people on the Western landscape". Phoenix Home & Garden. 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Mark Klett: Ideas About Time | ASU Art Museum". asuartmuseum.asu.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-08-25. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ^ "Book Reviews: Reconstructing the View". blog.photoeye.com/.
- doi:10.22269/110711.
- ^ "View ASU faculty members who won the Regents Professor award". 8 February 2017. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Mark Klett". gf.org.
External links
- Official website
- The collaborative works of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
- Collection of Mark Klett photos at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
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