Mark Klett is known primarily as a photographer who specializes in works that focus on perceptions of the American West. Klett worked as part of a team on Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project in the 1970s and then as Project Director on Third View in the 1990s. Both projects reproduced views of sites in the West made historic in 19th century survey photographs. Ideas About Time, uses as its basis, images that Klett describes as “iconographic,” and responsible for the “monumentalization of the West.” These images offer a unique understanding of the relationship between people and place in the West. As Klett’s photographs form connections between the past and the present, the dynamic interaction of nature and culture is also illustrated. Mark Klett Photography: Picnic on the edge of the rim, Grand Canyon, 1983
Mark Klett Photography: Picnic on the edge of the rim, Grand Canyon, 1983