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]
Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest1992 · University of New Mexico Press · book · EnglishISBN 0826313205Features essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick and Thomas W. Southall.
Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project1984 · University of New Mexico Press · bookCollaborative project with colleagues.
One City/Two Visions: San Francisco Panoramas, 1878 and 19901990 · Bedford Arts Publishers · bookAccordion-fold book comparing Muybridge's panorama with Klett's.
Exhibitions
Mark KlettAddison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusettssolo
Mark KlettLos Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angelessolo
Mark KlettNational Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DCsolo
Mark KlettPhoenix Art Museum, Phoenixsolo
Awards
1979Emerging Artist FellowshipNational Endowment for the Arts
