Mark Klett
photographer
Mark Klett is a prominent American landscape photographer known for his exploration of human interaction with the natural environment. Trained as a geologist at St. Lawrence University before earning an M.F.A. from the State University of New York, Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop), Klett combined these disciplines to work as a photographer for the U.S. Geologic Survey and later as a professor at Arizona State University. His distinctive style often utilizes black-and-white landscapes of the Southwestern United States, frequently employing Polaroid positive-negative film which creates unique edges on his prints. He is also noted for his 'rephotography' projects, where he retraced nineteenth-century expedition routes to photograph from identical locations.[1]
- human interaction with landscape
- rephotography
- Southwestern United States
Books
Works by Mark Klett
- 1992 Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest Features essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick and Thomas W. Southall.
- 1984 Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project Collaborative project with colleagues.
- 1990 One City/Two Visions: San Francisco Panoramas, 1878 and 1990 Accordion-fold book comparing Muybridge's panorama with Klett's.
Exhibitions
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Awards
- 1979 Emerging Artist Fellowship
- 2001 Regents Professor
References
- Mark Klett. eMuseum link