Mark Klett
Subtitle: Saguaros
Contributors: Mark Klett (Photographer)
Publisher: Radius Books; Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published: October 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781934435007
Subjects: Photographs: collections; Individual Photographer; Photography / Individual Photographer; Photography; Photo Techniques
Description: Mark Klett has been photographing the deserts of the American West, in particular the beauties of the Sonoran landscape--a desert that sprawls across southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Along with coyotes and tumbleweeds, saguaro cacti are one of the most recognizable (and stereotypical) features of this region. Klett's portraits of these giant desert plants are straightforward and frontal. Klett is known for teasing out the implications of man's presence in the environment: here, vital young saguaros, middle-aged contenders with gunshot wounds and wizened elders are treated as worthy inhabitants. This beautifully produced volume, featuring 40 deluxe tritone images, presents a selection of Klett's most evocative portraits with an essay by acclaimed writer Gregory McNamee.