Witness to sunrise. Muley point, UTAH, 1988
Mark Klett, one of America’s foremost landscape photographers who has earned international acclaim.
For more than a decade, Klett has been photographing throughout the American Southwest, primarily in Arizona and Utah. His photographs of ancient ruins, plywood teepee tourist attractions, or sprawling desert cities are evidence of the variety of peoples and cultures who have explored and settled this rugged and spectacular landscape. Rather than seeing landscape and nature as completely separate from human activity or as a resource to be exploited by man, Klett sees people as part of the natural landscape.
Klett's photographs examine the way in which people have occupied and experienced this land, as well as the evidence they have left of their presence. At the same time they question how this human presence has changed the landscape and what this might mean for the future.
The Third View project, in which the location and orientation of 19th century photographs of the western landscape were painstakingly recreated in the 1970s and again in the 1990s. The photographic series uses as its basis images that Klett describes as «iconographic», and responsible for the «monumentalization of the West». The series creates a unique understanding of the relationship between Western people and places, as the photographs form connections between the past and the present, illustrating the dynamic interaction of nature and culture.
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