Ideas - Phantasm - Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

Ideas/Phantasm: Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
By Deshawn Brown

Byron Wolfe is an associate Professor and the Program Director of Photography at the Tyler School of Art, Center for the Arts, at Temple University in Philadelphia. In his career as artist / photographer, he has published 4 books. One book has been solo, the other three books have been done collaboratively. Wolfe’s photographs connect his interests in time, change, and place. Currently, he is the Program Director for Photography at the Tyler School of Art.

Mark Klett is also an American photographer. He photographs the intersection of cultures, landscapes and time. Before coming into the world of photography, he had a background as a geologist and uses what he has learned to create the re-photographed images. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Buhl Foundation, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. His work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally for over 30 years, and his work is held in over 80 museum collections worldwide.

I think that their collage ideas are somewhat like Penelope Umbrico, bothworking with re-photographed images. I do like to see the changes in the landscapes because, as humans, I do believe we are damaging the world around us and the changes from where we are and where were a century ago look totally different.