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Byron Checking the Position of the Moon with His Laptop Flaming Gorge, WY, 1997, gelatin-silver print, 20 x 24 in, $3500

As part of our video series photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly and Mark Klett do a virtual walk-through of Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective, his recent online exhibition. They also discuss the artist's prolific career and the making of his book. Watch this stimulating conversation below or on Vimeo.

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Anne Kelly, Gallery Director at photo-eye (photo credit: Dave Hyams) & artist self-portrait © Mark Klett, One hour, 52nd Birthday 9/9/04

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective, an online solo exhibition by renowned photographer Mark Klett, is the first in a series of our Gallery’s major online shows that use photoeye’s revolutionary new VisualServer X website builder.

Held in honor of his new book Seeing Time (University of Texas Press, 2020), this exhibition presents selected photographs from thirteen different projects, some never before seen. 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.

The online show showcases approximately 100 images. Also, a selection of this work is currently on view at photo-eye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. Contact the gallery at gallery@photoeye.com or 505-988-5152 x121 to schedule your visit!

Saguaros, individual 20 x 16 inches gelatin-silver prints, if available, prices are $3500 each

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Hardbound [Signed] $85.00
Limited Edition: $150.00
About the Limited Edition:

Each print offered for our photo-eye Exclusive Limited Edition is 6" x 7½" and signed in an edition of 20.

Previous print editions, including Beneath the Great Arch, Bullet Riddled Saguaro, and Spiral
Carving Facing East, have all sold out!

Limited Edition — Campsite reached by boat through watery canyons, Lake Powell. Only 4 prints left!

Campsite reached by boat through watery canyons, Lake Powell

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All prices listed were current at the time this post was published.

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

Looking through the snow tunnel above Goat Lake, Sawtooth Range, ID, 8/9/81, price upon request

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This week the photo-eye Gallery staff were assigned with the seemingly-impossible task of each picking a favorite piece out of this powerful and awe-inspiring exhibition. Read more on their selections below.

Gallery Staff Picks

Anne Kelly, Gallery Director:

Selecting a favorite image is always difficult, particularly when choosing from a brilliant artist whose career spans over 40 years, so I couldn’t help but pick two this time.

Image 1:

Mark Klett, View from the Tent at Pyramid Lake, NV, 2000, archival pigment ink print, 22 x 29 inches, edition of 50, $2400

A great photograph can have transformative power. I have developed a close relationship with this image over the past few months. Whenever I need a little escape, I take a moment with this image and imagine that I am waking up in a tent at Pyramid Lake at 9:45 am. A perfect little day dream to lift my spirits during a time when travel is uncertain.

Image 2:

Mark Klett, Facing South, Sunrise at Black Rock, NV, 9/18/00, gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches, edition of 50, $3500

Having spent the past two decades hiking in the South West, I relate to this image. Much like the previous photograph, viewing this image transports me back to moments that make me feel truly alive. Taking in the view after a day of exploring.

This image is part of a series that began when Klett first moved to the South West in 1982 — naturally he started to explore his new home with his camera & Type 55 Polaroid film.

Patricia Martin, Gallery Assistant:

Mark Klett, Six quarter moons, toned gelatin-silver print, 7 x 9 inches, edition of 20, $5400

Mark Klett's Time Studies series is comprised of a group of small-scale photographs that have been described by the artist as "equations" that address the question about the connection between time and transformation.

Six quarter moons particularly stands out for me from the rest of the images in the aforementioned series. The photograph is a perfect blending of science and poetry. The composition plays abstractly with the technical possibilities of the still camera, capturing within a single frame moments of what our eyes would otherwise be unable to grasp — while the several delicate and bold golden lines formed by the stars and the waxing moon passing through the atmosphere read as if they were poetry verses. Like a celestial poet, Klett uses the light from stars and the moon to scribe lines across the sky. Six quarter moons is meditative similar to a Rilke poem. The image is a harmonious collaboration between artist, machine and the celestial.

Mark Klett, Peering Into the Window of a Small Sanctuary Near Villa de Ponte, 1995, gelatin-silver print, 16 x 20 image, contact for price

ARTIST BIO

Mark Klett was born in Albany, New York, earned a B.S. in geology in 1974 from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in photography from the State University of New York, Buffalo, in conjunction with the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester in 1977. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. Klett’s work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally for over thirty-five years, and his work is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of fifteen books. Klett lives in Tempe, Arizona where he is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University.

Mark Klett: Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective
On view through October 2020

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Staff at 505-988-5152 or gallery@photoeye.com.

Mark Klett, Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective, an online exhibition by photo-eye

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

photo-eye Gallery is thrilled to announce that Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective—an online exhibition by renowned photographer Mark Klett—is now open for viewing!

This exciting exhibition uses photo-eye’s revolutionary new VisualServer X website builder and is the first in a series of our Gallery’s major online shows. Held in honor of his new book Seeing Time (University of Texas Press, 2020), this exhibition presents selected photographs from thirteen different projects, some never before seen.

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. Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective runs online from August 5 to September 5, 2020 at seeingtime.photoeye.com

A selection of this work is currently on view at photo-eye's walk-in Gallery, Santa Fe. photo-eye Gallery is open by appointment only until further notice. Please contact us at gallery@photoeye.com or 505-988-5152 x121 to schedule your visit!

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Entering a narrow cave, Salt Creek Utah, 5/9/90, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches, contact for price

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

With a career spanning over four decades, Mark Klett has advanced a new notion of landscape photography, one that reframes our idea of what “pictures of the land” can mean. His projects explore relationships between time, change and perception while exploring the language of photographic media as it evolves technologically.

Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers including Timothy O'Sullivan, Mark Klett visually explores the contemporary versions of these landscapes and the marks left on them by humankind, whether it be the lights of a city, a hat, foot or shadow jutting into the frame, or debris/artifacts left behind by ancient or modern passers-by. Primarily working in the Southwestern deserts, Klett neither laments the peopling of the landscape, nor attempts to visually preserve the last of the pristine landscape of the American West. Rather, he explores the inevitable interaction of culture and habitat.

Four views from four times and one shoreline, Lake Tenaya, 2002, inkjet print, 24 x 66 inches, contact for price

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mark Klett was born in Albany, New York, earned a B.S. in geology in 1974 from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in photography from the State University of New York, Buffalo, in conjunction with the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester in 1977. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. Klett’s work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally for over thirty-five years, and his work is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of fifteen books. Klett lives in Tempe, Arizona where he is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University.

Looking through the snow tunnel above Goat Lake, Sawtooth Range, gelatin silver print, contact for price

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Mark Klett signing copies of Seeing Time at a campsite in Colorado

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