David Maisel: The Lake Project [SIGNED]

MAISEL, David, SOBIESZEK, Robert

ISBN 10: 1590050711 / ISBN 13: 9781590050712

Published by Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2003

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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. Seller Inventory # 112693

Bibliographic Details

Title: David Maisel: The Lake Project [SIGNED]

Publisher: Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION (with Print). First edition, first and only printing. Deluxe limited edition of 25 copies, with an original 14 x 14 inch color Type C print of "The Lake Project #9816-2, 2002" (reproduced in the book), signed, numbered, titled and dated on verso in black ink by Maisel (image size 12 x 12 inches). The book is signed in black ink on the half-title page by Maisel. The print (with a protective archival paper sheet) and book are housed in a custom-made purple cloth clamshell box, with title stamped in gray on cover and spine. Hardcover. Fine linen cloth, with debossed title blind-stamped on front cover and spine, with dust jacket. Photographs by David Maisel. Introduction by Robert Sobieszek. 60 pp., with 36 four-color plates, beautifully printed on fine matt Japanese art paper. 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 1000 copies. 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."