Mark Klett, visiting photographer
Klett is an internationally known photographer whose work is located at the intersection of cultures, landscapes, and time. Over the past 35 years, Klett has investigated the history and contemporary practice of U.S. western landscape photography first established during the 19th century U.S. Geological Survey Project. His research is inherently interdisciplinary, combining knowledge of geology and social change with an artist’s eye.
Klett’s photographic work has focused on explorations of human interaction with the American landscape, and more recently, on issues of photography in time including rephotography of landmark sites as a way of understanding both geological and social changes in the American West. As such, Klett’s work is of particular interest to scholars, practitioners, and students in the fields of art practice, history, sociology, American studies, Latino studies, and geology.