This exhibition of works by artist Mark Klett explores various ideas of time captured through the art of photography. The idea of returning to a place to encapsulate change over time is central to Klett’s work. The exhibition is an elliptical commentary on ecological change, of course, but also a melancholy observation on mutability. Curated by Director Marilyn Zeitlin, Mark Klett: Ideas About Time made its debut in the fall of 2002 at the Arizona State University Art Museum.

The exhibition is not limited to one group of works, but selected from the entire output of Klett’s work, following the thread of the concept of time throughout.

Mark Klett is an internationally known photographer who specializes in perceptions of the American West. His many solo exhibitions include the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. He has authored and co-authored eight books that feature his photographs and is director of the website project, Third View (www.thirdview.org). The Third View Project, in which the location and orientation of nineteenth-century photographs of the landscape were recreated in the 1970’s and again in the 1990s, helps us understand the relationship between people and place in the West. The photographs form connections between past and present needed to visualize the dynamic interaction of nature and culture.

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For more information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.