 Clift moved to Santa Fe in 1971 with his wife, Vida who after 10 years at Harvard taught at St. John’s while Clift began documenting the landscape of the region, including La Bajada, Canyon de Chelly, and Shiprock, the latter being paired in his photobook with imagery of Mont-St. Michel in France.In 1977 to 1984 he made portraits of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe and her assistant Juan Hamilton and also in 1984 returned to using the Polaroid camera in making portraits of his daughter for "A Particular World.