Mark Klett
{{short description|American photographer (born 1952)}}
Mark Klett (born 9 September 1952) is an American photographer.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/nyregion/art-review-photographs-of-time-and-the-desert.html|title=ART REVIEW; Photographs of Time and the Desert|last=Genocchio|first=Benjamin|date=29 August 2004|work=The New York Times|page=7|accessdate=26 June 2011}}{{cite book|last=Warren|first=Lynne|title=Encyclopedia of 20th century photography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YeK7FXhKrw0C&pg=PA880|accessdate=26 June 2011|year=2006|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-415-97665-7|pages=880–|quote=American Mark Klett is among the most accomplished landscape photographers in the ranks of twentieth century American....}}{{cite book|last1=Levere|first1=Douglas|last2=Yochelson|first2=Bonnie|last3=Abbott|first3=Berenice|title=New York changing: revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wOaA7yLwF-AC&pg=PA13|accessdate=26 June 2011|date=2005-02-01|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=978-1-56898-473-5|pages=13–}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/14/arts/photography-view-tricky-attempts-to-balance-esthetics-and-politics.html|title=PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW; Tricky Attempts to Balance Esthetics and Politics|last=Hagen|first=Charles|date=14 June 1992|work=The New York Times|page=27|accessdate=26 June 2011}} His work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{cite web |title=Mark Klett {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/mark-klett-2658 |website=americanart.si.edu}} the Museum of Fine Arts Houston{{cite web |title=Mark Klett: The Hangar that held the bomber Enola Gay|url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/140185/the-hangar-that-held-the-bomber-enola-gay |website=mfah.org}} and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-26|title=Mark Klett|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/3144|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}
Life
Klett was born in Albany, New York.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kopeikingallery.com/artists/mark-klett/bio|title=kopeikingallery.com|website=www.kopeikingallery.com|access-date=2018-03-21}} 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.{{cite web |title=Mark Klett |url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/mark-klett?all/all/all/all/0 |website=International Center of Photography |language=en |date=31 January 2018}}
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.{{cite web |title=Photographer Mark Klett captures the impact of time and people on the Western landscape |url=https://www.phgmag.com/photographer-mark-klett-captures-the-impact-of-time-and-people-on-the-western-landscape/ |website=Phoenix Home & Garden |date=2 December 2020}} In particular, his photographs respond to historic images and his projects explore relationships between time, change and perception.{{cite web |title=Mark Klett: Ideas About Time {{!}} ASU Art Museum |url=https://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/exhibitions/traveling/mark-klett-ideas-about-time |website=asuartmuseum.asu.edu |access-date=2021-08-25 |archive-date=2021-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825051550/https://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/exhibitions/traveling/mark-klett-ideas-about-time |url-status=dead }}
He is particularly known for his rephotography projects, recently with collaborator Byron Wolfe, which included western landscapes, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Glenn Canyon.{{cite web |title=Book Reviews: Reconstructing the View |url=https://blog.photoeye.com/2012/12/book-reviews-reconstructing-view.html |website=blog.photoeye.com/}}{{cite journal |last1=Klett |first1=Mark |last2=Rothman |first2=Aaron |title=Views Across Time |url=https://placesjournal.org/article/views-across-time/?cn-reloaded=1 |journal=Places Journal |doi=10.22269/110711 |date=11 July 2011|issue=2011 |doi-access=free }}
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 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
- 1979: Emerging Artist Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- 1982: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- 1984: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- 1993: Photographer of the Year from Friends of Photography{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- Japan/U.S. Creative Artist Fellowship{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- 2001: Regents' Professor, Arizona State University{{Cite web|url = https://provost.asu.edu/regents|title = View ASU faculty members who won the Regents Professor award|date = 8 February 2017|access-date = 4 October 2013|archive-date = 5 October 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131005000505/https://provost.asu.edu/regents|url-status = dead}}
- 2004: Guggenheim Fellowship{{cite web |title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Mark Klett |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/mark-klett/ |website=gf.org}}
Collections
Klett's work is held in the following permanent collections:
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston
- Museum of Modern Art, New York: 33 prints (as of 26 September 2021)
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.markklettphotography.com}}
- [https://www.klettandwolfe.com The collaborative works of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110809175243/http://ccp.uair.arizona.edu/item/36301 Collection of Mark Klett photos at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.]
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Category:American photographers
Category:United States Geological Survey personnel
Category:St. Lawrence University alumni
Category:Artists from Albany, New York
Category:Arizona State University faculty