Klett's photographic work focuses on explorations of man’s interaction with the American landscape, and more recently on issues of photography in time including rephotography.
He is a Regents Professor and teaches photography at Arizona State University, and lives with his wife and two daughters in Tempe, Arizona.
Publications
Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project. With Ellen Manchester and JoAnn Verburg, University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
Traces of Eden: Travels in the Desert Southwest. David R. Godine, 1986.
Headlands: the Marin Coast at the Golden Gate. With Miles De Coster, Mike Mandel,Paul Metcalf, and Larry Sultan, University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
One City/Two Visions. Bedford Arts Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1990.
Photographing Oklahoma. 1889-1991. Oklahoma City Art Museum, 1991.
Revealing Territory. University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Capitol View: A New Panorama of Washington DC. With Merry Foresta, Smithsonian Institution and Book Studios, 1994.
Desert Legends: Restoring the Sonoran Borderlands. With Gary Paul Nabhan, Henry Holt, 1994.
The Black Rock Desert. With Bill Fox, University of Arizona Press, 2002. ISBN 0816521727.
Third Views, Second Sights, A Rephotographic Survey of the American West. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004. ISBN 0-89013-432-4.
Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers. With Rebecca Solnit and Byron Wolfe, Trinity University Press, 2005. ISBN 1-59534-042-4.
After the Ruins: Rephotographing the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. University of California Press, 2005. ISBN 0-520-24556-3.
Mark Klett: Saguaros by Gregory McNamee and Mark Klett. Radius Books, 2007. ISBN 1-934435-00-7.
