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The Lake Project.
Photographs by David Maisel. Introduction by Robert A. Sobieszek.
Nazraeli Press,
Tucson,
2004.
Unpaged,
Numerous color illustrations,
14x14".
In 1913, in response to a thirsty
and ever-growing Southern
Californian megalopolis, the
State began syphoning off
water in mass quantities from
Owens Lake, located on Route
395 between the Sierra
Nevadas to the west and
Death Valley to the east. By
1926 the lake was all but dead,
a vast expanse of exposed deposits of nickel, arsenic,
and cadmium. Maisel took to the air over Owens Lake
in 2001 and 2002 capturing hallucinatory scenes of
color and texture that nearly conceal the fact that
they are aerial views. The sheer size of the areas photographed
are at direct odds with the microscopic
and abstract, two-dimensional space that Maisel creates
in these images. In that sense, the work succeeds
on several fronts and is well-suited to book form.
About the limited edition:
This special edition of The Lake Project is limited to 25 copies with an original print, numbered and signed by the artist and presented in a clamshell box.
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