Maisel Lake Project Signed by Maisel David (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the half title page by Maisel. Hardcover. Fine linen cloth, with debossed title on front cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by David Maisel. Introduction by Robert Sobieszek. 60 pp., with 36 four-color plates, beautifully printed on fine matte Japanese art paper. 14-1/4 x 14-1/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 1000 copies. Out of print. Scarce. Fine in Fine dust jacket. From the publisher: "For more than two decades, David Maisel has photographed civilization's aggressive advance across the American landscape. The sites he has pursued, the subjects he has discovered, and the abstract beauty he has confronted are all the more unfamiliar and disarming because of their aerial perspectives. Looking down from low-flying aircraft banking steeply over the terrain, Maisel constructs skewed landscapes that seem at times to have no horizons, no up or down, no near or far. The Lake Project documents Maisel's work around Owens Lake. This arid expanse, located just east of the Sierra Nevadas, is for the most part a desiccated bed of mineral deposits. Drained for the water needs of Southern California, it now contributes carcinogenic particles to the atmosphere during "dust events." These are not normal landscapes; there is no foreground, middle ground, or background but only the ground itself, teeming with malignant colors. David Maisel lives and works in California. This oversized book, superbly printed in color on matte Japanese art paper, is his first monograph." Signed by Author.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. David Maisel - photography (illustrator). Large, square 4tp. Unpaginated. Foreword by Robert A. Sobiszek. Frontis. photo reproduction by David Maisel. Bound in eggplant-colored cloth lettered in silver on front board and spine. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket. A handsome book production, designed by David Maisel, revealing a labor of love. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.