David Maisel: Black Maps (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783869305370)

Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel's career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today. Maisel's images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the Los Angeles Times has stated, argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.

Author: David Maisel
ISBN-10: 3869305371
ISBN-13: 9783869305370
Publisher: Steidl
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2013
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 5.55lbs
Size: 11.80h x 11.50w x 1.20d