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Mark Klett (born 1952) is an American photographer.[1][2][3][4]

Life and work

Klett was born in Albany, New York. 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.[citation needed]

Klett's photographic work focuses on explorations of man’s interaction with the American landscape, and more recently on issues of photography in time including rephotography.

He is a Regents Professor and teaches photography at Arizona State University, and lives with his wife and two daughters in Tempe, Arizona.[citation needed]

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. 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.

Awards

References

  1. ^ Genocchio, Benjamin (29 August 2004). "ART REVIEW; Photographs of Time and the Desert". The New York Times. p. 7. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  2. ^ 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....
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Hagen;, Charles (14 June 1992). "PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW; Tricky Attempts to Balance Esthetics and Politics". The New York Times. p. 27. Retrieved 26 June 2011.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ https://provost.asu.edu/regents