Full Description
An artist of singular originality and vision, award-winning landscape photographer Mark Klett has built a profound and dynamic career that captures the space and history of the American West while evoking notions of time, perception, and cultural memory. His practice is grounded in both artistic inquiry and the evolution of photographic technologies, reflecting a constellation of ideas that blend science with poetry. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Klett has advanced a new notion of landscape photography that reframes our sense of what pictures of the land mean.
Seeing Time is the first retrospective of Klett's career. It presents selected photographs from thirteen different projects, some never before seen. The book showcases work from individual and collaborative projects alongside texts by distinguished curators who examine the ideas behind Klett's practice, its historical context, and his collaborative processes. From his rephotographic surveys, which pair conceptual art with questions about how lands change through human intervention, to the series of portraits with his eldest daughter on their shared birthday, the images presented here combine to form a body of work at once expansive and richly personal.
Contents
Interview with Mark Klett, by Anne Wilkes Tucker
A Sense of Where You Are: The Making of a New Kind of Landscape Photographer, by Keith F. Davis
Mark Klett's Guide to Collaboration, by Rebecca A. Senf
Plates
The Rephotographic Survey Project, 1977-1979
Pre-Arizona, 1979-1981
Revealing Territory, 1982-2004
Saguaros, 1987-2007
Birthday Portraits, 1992-Ongoing
Third View, 1997-2000
Yosemite in Time, 2001-2003
The Half-Life of History, 2001-2007
Time Studies, 2003-2005
Reconstructing the View, 2007-2010
Drowned River, 2011-2016
El Camino del Diablo, 2013-2015
Sticks from the Sunrise Stick Game, 2019
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