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Terminal Mirage. Inspired by Robert Smithson’s writings on the Great Salt Lake, Maisel embarked upon an aerial survey of this surreal, apocalyptic, and strangely beautiful region. Terminal Mirage examines the periphery of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, including zones of mineral evaporation ponds and macabre industrial pollution covering some ...
- The Lake Project
The Lake Project comprises images from Owens Lake, the site...
- Oblivion
In his book Warped Space, the architectural theorist Anthony...
- The Forest
The Forest dates from 1986, when Maisel lived in Maine. Log...
- Black Maps
Black Maps - Terminal Mirage – David Maisel
- The Mining Project
The Mining Project - Terminal Mirage – David Maisel
- Proving Ground
An encounter with one of the most secretive of American...
- History's Shadow
History’s Shadow has as its source material x-rays of art...
- American Mine
American Mine - Terminal Mirage – David Maisel
- Library of Dust
Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each...
- The Lake Project
Terminal Mirage. When the Whole is Indecipherable: David Maisel’s Terminal Mirage By Anne Wilkes Tucker In his project Terminal Mirage, Maisel intentionally obscures the function, location, scale, and condition of his subject. No title names the Great Salt Lake or its environs as his subject.
Apr 26, 2013 · SCIENCE. The Strange Beauty of David Maisel’s Aerial Photographs. A new book shows how the photographer creates startling images of open-pit mines, evaporation ponds and other sites of...
Black Maps: Terminal Mirage. David Maisel has been documenting environmentally impacted landscapes, as seen from the air, for more than 20 years. The large-format unaltered photographs reveal worlds that are alien, surreal, terrifying and beautiful. Photographs and text by David Maisel. View Images.
Looking down onto these zones, where human activity has replaced the natural order, what I see is at once seductively beautiful and terrible. The images in Terminal Mirage are intended to expand our notions of what constitutes landscape and landscape art in this era of the post-natural world.
The Lake Project and Terminal Mirage are two chapters in my extensive photographic series called Black Maps, which consists of my aerial photographs of environmentally impacted landscapes. These images depict the undoing of the natural world by wide-scaled human activity.
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Maisel’s camera work, composed in part by means of the spiraling, aggressively banked turns of airplanes on the very edge of the envelope of flight, achieves a similar effect in Terminal Mirage. We are pressed toward the caustic landscape as if by autoclave.
