Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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David Maisel<br />
Black Maps<br />
American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime<br />
Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered<br />
terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span<br />
Maisel’s career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic<br />
metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today. Maisel’s images of environmentally<br />
impacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones<br />
of water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the Los<br />
Angeles Times has stated, “argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the<br />
damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.”<br />
David Maisel was born in New York in 1961. His photographs have been exhibited internationally, and are included in<br />
many permanent collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of<br />
Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Maisel was a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute<br />
in 2007, an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2008, and a recipient of an individual artist’s grant<br />
from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a trustee of the Headlands Center for the Arts.<br />
Exhibitions: CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 1 February to 11 May, <strong>2013</strong>; Scottsdale Museum of<br />
Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1 June to 1 September <strong>2013</strong><br />
David Maisel<br />
Black Maps<br />
American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime<br />
Edited by Alan Rapp<br />
Introduction by Julian Cox<br />
Essays by Natasha Egan, Geoff Manaugh, Alan Rapp,<br />
Kirsten Rian, Joseph Thompson and Kazys Varnelis<br />
Poem by Mark Strand<br />
Book design by Bob Aufuldish, Aufuldish & Warinner<br />
228 pages<br />
11.6 x 11.6 in. / 29.5 x 29.5 cm<br />
115 photographs<br />
Duotone and four colour process<br />
Hardcover with dust jacket<br />
€ 56.00 / £ 45.00 / US$ 75.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86930-537-0<br />
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