Saguaros

Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2007

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.

When I turn the last page and there is not another photo, I am disappointed. I want more. I want to rise and walk into the desert.

— Craig Childs, Orion Magazine

Related Projects:

Saguaros, 2012-Ongoing

Related Books:

El Camino del Diablo

Radius Books, 2016

Seeing Time: Forty Years of Photographs

 University of Texas Press, 2020

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