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Mark Klett, Regents' Professor of Photography, Art

2009-10-26
Mark Klett is a Regents’ Professor of photography in the ASU Herberger Institute School of Art. His recent exhibition, Charting the Canyon, photographs of the Grand Canyon by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, runs through Jan. 3, 2010 at the Autry National Center, Los Angeles, Calif. The exhibition originated at the Phoenix Art Museum and toured to Los Angeles for its second venue. The exhibition later will be scheduled for a national tour. For a detailed exhibition description, visit the Autry National Center Web site.

Mark Klett’s bio

Project Date: Sept. 2009 – Jan. 2010

2008-04-24
Mark Klett, Regents' Professor of Photography in the ASU Herberger College School of Art, received the 2008 Artist Award during the 27th Annual Governor's Arts Awards. The award is given to a living Arizona artist active in the field of literature, visual arts, performing arts, folk arts, architecture, design or film.

Criteria include: the significance or magnitude of the contribution or achievement, the breadth of the population served and the recognition brought by virtue of the achievement and the length of time or intensity of activity dedicated to the arts.

Mark Kletts's bio

Project Date: April 23 2008

2008-01-21
Mark Klett, Regents' Professor of Photography, published Saguaros, one of the first four books published by a new fine art book publisher, Radius Press.

The publisher's description of Klett's book, Saguaros, with an essay by Gregory McNamee:

For years, Mark Klett has been photographing the deserts of the American West,
in particular the beauties of the Sonoran desert landscape, a desert that sprawls across southern Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora. Along with coyotes,the full moon, and tumbleweeds, saguaro cacti are one of the most recognizable (and stereotypical) features of the Sonoran landscape. His portraits of these giants cacti, made from the beginning of his career to the present, are straightforward and frontal,objective yet inspired. Klett is known for teasing out the implications of man's presence—both historical and recreational—in the landscape. In this case, vital young saguaros, middle-aged contenders with gunshot wounds, and wizened elders are treated as wise inhabitants. This handsome, oversized book presents a selection of these portraits, coupled with an essay by an acclaimed writer, Gregory McNamee.

Mark Kletts's bio

Project Date: November 2007