Mark Klett is an American

United States

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 photographer. Klett was born in Albany, NY. After getting a B.S. from St. Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....

 in Geology

Geology

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 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

Rochester, New York

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 studying with Nathan Lyons

Nathan Lyons

Nathan Lyons is an American artist and photographer who currently lives and works in New York. The artist's body of work consists primarily of photographs which focus on American culture...

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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

Rephotography

Rephotography is the act of repeat photography of the same site, with a time lag between the two images; a "then and now" view of a particular area. Some are casual, usually taken from the same view point but without regard to season, lens coverage or framing. Some are very precise and involve a...

. Awards for his work have included an Emeriging Artist Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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 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

Guggenheim Fellowship

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 in 2004. In 2001 he was named a Regents Professor at Arizona State University

Arizona State University

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 (ASU).

Publications

• Mark Klett: Saguaros by Gregory McNamee and Mark Klett (2007, Radius Books) ISBN 1934435007
• After the Ruins: Rephotographing the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, University of California Press (2005) ISBN 0520245563
• Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers, with Rebecca Solnit
  Rebecca Solnit
  Rebecca Solnit is a writer who lives in San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art....
  
   and Byron Wolfe, Trinity University Press (2005) ISBN 1595340424
• Third Views, Second Sights, A Rephotographic Survey of the American West, Museum of New Mexico Press (2004) ISBN 0890134324
• The Black Rock Desert, with Bill Fox, University of Arizona Press (2002)ISBN 0816521727
• Desert Legends: Restoring 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)