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Apr 26, 2013 · Oblivion, as the photographer describes on his personal Web site, was a “coda” to The Lake Project; for this series of black and white photographs, reversed like x-rays, Maisel made the...
David Maisel. David Maisel is an artist whose work spans photography, painting, and video. He is the recipient of Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, among other awards and honors.
David Maisel (born 1961) [1] [2] is an American photographer and visual artist whose works explore vestiges and remnants of civilizations both past and present. His work has been the subject of five major monographs, published by Nazraeli Press , Chronicle Books , and Steidl .
David Maisel, a visual artist whose work has explored hidden landscapes, archives, and histories of the American west for more than three decades, was named a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow for Photography. Read more
David Maisel’s images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. Maisel’s images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics and politics of open pit mines, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation.
Maisel’s mineral-based, painterly color prints transform human-altered landscapes into subjects and objects of extreme beauty, while simultaneously unveiling the magnitude of hidden ecological devastation that punctuates the vast interior of the American West.
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Jul 27, 2013 · In the first two bodies of work, Maisel uses black & white photographs to explore the effects of mining and rapid sprawl in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico and documents a massive logging project in Maine.
