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]

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.

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]

• 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

• 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]

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]

• Official website
• The collaborative works of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
• Collection of Mark Klett photos at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.