Mark Klett Quotes

• The most prevalent way of working in photography right now is project oriented: you go after an idea. I like the old way, the intuitive approach. You follow your nose and take pictures and see what emerges. It happens after the fact.

  Mark Klett

  Photography, Ideas, Noses

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• So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The interesting thing is to make use of this history, not merely to be absorbed into it. For me, landscape photographs begin as the artifacts of personal moments. They get interesting when they become cultural commentary.

  Mark Klett

  Thinking, Land, Interesting

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• In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change.

  Mark Klett

  Past, Important, World

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• I am interested in making photographs which comment on the experience of a place as well as describe it. My position has not typically been one of advocacy for or against any political position. But I regard photographs as commentary, and that includes, at times, taking a specific political viewpoint on an issue.

  Mark Klett

  Issues, Political, Viewpoints

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• Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.

  Mark Klett

  Giving, Antiques, Unnecessary

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• No me interesa mucho descubrir nuevos territorios que fotografiar. En cambio, lo que me gustaría que mis imágenes pudieran hacer es disminuir la distancia que uno suele sentir al mirar fotografías de paisajes... Cuanto más tiempo trabajo, más importante es para mí hacer fotografías que cuenten mi historia como participante, y no como mero observador de la tierra.

  Mark Klett

  Distance, Land, Wish

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• Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.

  Mark Klett

  Photography, Art, Museums

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