Mark Klett Landscape Photography
American, b. 1952
The subject of Mark Klett’s photography is the vast Western landscape and its visual interpretations. He is particularly interested in exposing the effects of time, culture, history and human activity on the landscape and developed the technique of rephotographing to achieve this.
From 1977–79, Klett was the chief photographer for the Rephotographic Survey Project that reshot, from the same physical location, iconic views of the West by early geological survey photographers who were working in the 1860s. The pairing of these historical and contemporary images of the same landscapes revealed the technical, political and aesthetic decisions made by the 19th century photographers and exposed the ideologies underpinning these supposed neutral images.
Klett’s later photography has focused on quintessential destinations such as the Grand Canyon, Cedar Mesa, Yellowstone, and the US/Mexico Border. Referencing visual culture, social science and the language of photography, Klett demonstrates how our perception of the West is shaped by the history of its representation and the role of humans in it, even in its most remote areas.
Klett has an MFA in photography from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and a B.S. in geology from St. Lawrence University. He has published over 15 books and shown his work internationally for over 35 years. Klett has received four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships as well as numerous awards from the likes of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. He is Regents Professor of Art at Arizona State University, where he has taught since 1982.
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(Biography provided by Lisa Sette Gallery)
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Artist: Mark Klett
Self Portrait with Saguaro About My Same Age
By Mark Klett
Located in New York, NY
Platinum print (Edition of 100)
Titled and dated in pencil, recto
Signed and dated in pencil, verso
10 x 12 inches, sheet size
8 x 10 inches, image size
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1990s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Platinum
Storm Clouds Over Eastern Idaho Near Craters of the Moon
By Mark Klett
Located in Dallas, TX
Storm Clouds Over Eastern Idaho Near Craters of the Moon, 1980
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches.
Signed and dated in pencil on print verso by Mark Klett
From American Road Portfolio
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Silver Gelatin
"Saguaro (2 arms skyward)" cactus landscape desert photography mountains
By Mark Klett
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Mark Klett
Color Saguaros series (Saguaro 2 arms skyward), 2020
inkjet print on handmade Japanese paper
10.75” x 8.25” unframed / 14.75" x 12" framed
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"Saguaro (in darkness with moon)" cactus landscape desert photography mountains
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inkjet print on handmade Japanese paper
10.75” x 8.25” unframed / 14.75" x 12" framed
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"Saguaro (with glow at dusk)" cactus landscape desert photography sunset
By Mark Klett
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Mark Klett
Color Saguaros series (Saguaro with glow at dusk), 2020
inkjet print on handmade Japanese paper
10.75” x 8.25” unframed / 14.75" x 12" framed
Edition of 20
The subject ...
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2010s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Inkjet
"Saguaro (dusk red clouds moon)" cactus landscape desert photography mountains
By Mark Klett
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Mark Klett
Color Saguaros series (Saguaro dusk red clouds moon), 2020
inkjet print on handmade Japanese paper
10.75” x 8.25” unframed / 14.75" x 12" framed
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Category
2010s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
Materials
Inkjet
"Saguaro" cactus landscape desert photography mountains blue sky Japanese paper
By Mark Klett
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Mark Klett
Color Saguaros series (Saguaro), 2020
inkjet print on handmade Japanese paper
10.75” x 8.25” unframed / 14.75" x 12" framed
Edition of 20
The subject of Mark Klett’s ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
Materials
Inkjet
"Saguaro (in AM light 2 arms)" cactus landscape desert photography mountains
By Mark Klett
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Mark Klett
Color Saguaros series (Saguaro in AM light 2 arms Tom's Thumb), 2020
inkjet print on handmade Japanese paper
10.75” x 8.25” unframed / 14.75" x 12" framed
Edition of 20
...
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2010s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Inkjet
Ed Abbey in Turkey Pen Ruins, Grand Gulch, UT, 5/17/88
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting conditions as 19th-century photographs by the likes of seminal surveyors William Henry Jackson and Timothy O’Sullivan. These photos consider changes in landscape, history, culture, aesthetics, technology, representation, and perception. Klett has collaborated with several artists, including Byron Wolfe...
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1980s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Inkjet
Kyle looking at a bird's nest, Little Death Hollow, 5/15/96
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting conditions as 19th-century photographs by the likes of seminal surveyors William Henry Jackson...
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1990s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Drinking water from a pothole downstream from Uranium mine, 5/23/92
By Mark Klett
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Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
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1990s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Panorama of a Ghost River
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores these landscapes and the marks left on them by man. His images, like O'Sullivan's, have a human context - whether it be the lights of a city, a hat, foot or shadow jutting into the frame, or debris/artifacts left behind by ancient or modern passers-by. Working mostly in the desert Southwest...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Lena by reflecting pool, Muley Pt., 7/14/96
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting conditions as 19th-century photographs by the likes of seminal surveyors William Henry Jackson and Timothy O’Sullivan. These photos consider changes in landscape, history, culture, aesthetics, technology, representation, and perception. Klett has collaborated with several artists, including Byron Wolfe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Dirt bike loop, west of Henryville, Utah, 4/18/91
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting conditions as 19th-century photographs by the likes of seminal surveyors William Henry Jackson and Timothy O’Sullivan. These photos consider changes in landscape, history, culture, aesthetics, technology, representation, and perception. Klett has collaborated with several artists, including Byron Wolfe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Balancing rocks, road to Lee's Ferry Marble Canyon, AZ, 5/10/86
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting conditions as 19th-century photographs by the likes of seminal surveyors William Henry Jackson...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Gun found in drifting sand, Kelso, CA, 1/22/87
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting conditions as 19th-century photographs by the likes of seminal surveyors William Henry Jackson and Timothy O’Sullivan. These photos consider changes in landscape, history, culture, aesthetics, technology, representation, and perception. Klett has collaborated with several artists, including Byron Wolfe...
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1980s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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From El Tovar to Yavapai
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project, Reconstructing the View. The team's landscape photographs are based on the practice of rephotography, in which they identify sites of historic photographs and make new photographs of those precise locations. Klett and Wolfe referenced a wealth of images of the canyon, ranging from historical photographs and drawings by William Bell and William Henry Holmes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Marbel Canyon with Holmes
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project, Reconstructing the View. The team's landscape photographs are based on the practice of rephotography, in which they identify sites of historic photographs and make new photographs of those precise locations. Klett and Wolfe referenced a wealth of images of the canyon, ranging from historical photographs and drawings by William Bell and William Henry Holmes...
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2010s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
8 Minutes at Glacier Point
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores these landscapes and the marks left on them by man. His images, like O'Sullivan's, have a human context - whether it be the lights of a city, a hat, foot or shadow jutting into the frame, or debris/artifacts left behind by ancient or modern passers-by. Working mostly in the desert Southwest...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Lake Tenaya Panorama
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Inkjet
Above Lake Tenaya
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores these landscapes and the marks left on them by man. His images, like O'Sullivan's, have a human context - whether it be the lights of a city, a hat, foot or shadow jutting into the frame, or debris/artifacts left behind by ancient or modern passers-by. Working mostly in the desert Southwest...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Inkjet
Moran and Condor
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project, Reconstructing the View. The team's landscape photographs are based on the practice of rephotography, in which they identify sites of historic photographs and make new photographs of those precise locations. Klett and Wolfe referenced a wealth of images of the canyon, ranging from historical photographs and drawings by William Bell and William Henry Holmes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Lee's Ferry Rocks
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project, Reconstructing the View. The team's landscape photographs are based on the practice of rephotography, in which they identify sites of historic photographs and make new photographs of those precise locations. Klett and Wolfe referenced a wealth of images of the canyon, ranging from historical photographs and drawings by William Bell and William Henry Holmes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bullet Riddled Saguaro
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The photographs date from 1987 to 2006, and were made in the deserts of central and southern Arizona. The originals are 16”x20” gelatin silver photographs printed from 4”x5” Polaroid...
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20th Century Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Under the Dark Cloth
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The photographs date from 1987 to 2006, and were made in the deserts of central and southern Arizona. The originals are 16”x20” gelatin silver photographs printed from 4”x5” Polaroid...
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20th Century Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Desert Citizen
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores th...
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20th Century Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Beneath the Great Arch, Near Monticello, Utah
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores th...
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20th Century Contemporary Mark Klett Landscape Photography
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Silver Gelatin
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