Mark Klett
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Mark Klett (born 1952) is an American photographer. Klett was born in Albany, NY. After getting a B.S. from St. Lawrence University in Geology in 1974 he worked as a photographer with the U.S. Geological Survey. In 1977 he completed an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester New York studying with Nathan Lyons.
His photographic work has focused on explorations of man’s interaction with the American landscape, and more recently on issues of photography in time including rephotography. Awards for his work have included an Emeriging Artist Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979, 2 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1982 and 1984, Photographer of the Year from Friends of Photography in 1993, a Japan/U.S. Creative Artist Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. In 2001 he was named a Regents Professor at Arizona State University (ASU).
His books include: After the Ruins: Rephotographing the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, University of California Press (2005) Time in Yosemite, Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers, with Rebecca Solnit and Byron Wolfe, Trinity University Press (2005) Third Views, Second Sights, A Rephotographic Survey of the American West, Museum of New Mexico Press (2004) The Black Rock Desert, with Bill Fox, University of Arizona Press (2002) Desert Legends: Restorying the Sonoran Borderlands, with Gary Paul Nabhan, Henry Holt (1994) Capitol View: A New Panorama of Washington DC, with Merry Foresta, Smithsonian Institution and Book Studios (1994) Revealing Territory, University of New Mexico Press (1992) Photographing Oklahoma. 1889-1991, Oklahoma City Art Museum (1991) One City/Two Visions, Bedford Arts Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1990) 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) Traces of Eden: Travels in the Desert Southwest, David R. Godine (1986) Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project, with Ellen Manchester and JoAnn Verburg, University of New Mexico Press (1984)
