Library of Dust - David Maisel - Hardback - Fair Condition: Scuff and damage to outside covers This is photographer David Maisel's exploration of loss and remembrance through his unsettling images of copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patients from an Oregon psychiatric hospital that had flooded repeatedly over the years.

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Title: Library of Dust
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0811863336
ISBN 13: 9780811863339
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair

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Esteemed photographer David Maisel has created a somber and beautiful series of images depicting canisters containing the cremated remains of the unclaimed dead from an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Dating back as far as the nineteenth century, these canisters have undergone chemical reactions, causing extravagant blooms of brilliant white, green, and blue corrosion, revealing unexpected beauty in the most unlikely of places. This stately volume is both a quietly astonishing body of fine art from a preeminent contemporary photographer, and an exceptionally poignant monument to the unknown deceased.

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Photographer David Maisel's work is held in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others.

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