Mark Klett
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]
References
[edit]- ^ Genocchio, Benjamin (29 August 2004). "ART REVIEW; Photographs of Time and the Desert". The New York Times. p. 7. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ Warren, Lynne (2006). Encyclopedia of 20th century photography. CRC Press. pp. 880–. 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....
- ^ Levere, Douglas; Yochelson, Bonnie; Abbott, Berenice (2005-02-01). New York changing: revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 13–. 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/.
- ^ Klett, Mark; Rothman, Aaron (11 July 2011). "Views Across Time". Places Journal (2011). 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.
