Mark Klett (1952) is een fotograaf die zich interesseert voor de samenkomst van cultuur, landschap en tijd. Voordat hij fotograaf werd was hij werkzaam als geoloog. Klett ontving meerdere beurzen, waaronder die van de Guggenheim Foundation, de National Endowment for the Arts en de Japan/US Friendship Commision. Zijn werk werd in de afgelopen dertig jaar wereldwijd getoond en gepubliceerd en werd in totaal door zo’n 80 musea gecollectioneerd. Hij is de (co-)auteur van 14 boeken, waaronder The Half Life of History en Saguaros (Radius Press, 2011 en 2007), After the Ruins (University of California Press, 2006), Yosemite in Time (Trinity University Press, 2005), Third Views, Second Sights (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004), Revealing Territory (University of New Mexico Press, 1990), and Second View, the Rephotographic Survey Project (University of New Mexico Press, 1984). Klett woont en werkt in Tempe, Arizona waar hij ‘art’ doceert aan de Arizona State University.
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Mark Klett (born in 1952) is a photographer interested in the intersection of cultures, landscapes and time. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. Klett’s work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally for over thirty years, and his work is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of fourteen books including The Half Life of History and Saguaros (Radius Press 2011 and 2007), After the Ruins (University of California Press 2006), Yosemite in Time (Trinity University Press, 2005), Third Views, Second Sights (Museum of New Mexico Press 2004), Revealing Territory (University of New Mexico Press, 1990), and Second View, the Rephotographic Survey Project (University of New Mexico Press, 1984). Klett lives in Tempe, Arizona where he is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University.