Library of Dust

Photographs by David Maisel
Essays by David Maisel, Geoff Manaugh, Michael Roth, Terry Toedtemeier
108 pages, 71 color reproductions, 17"x14", casebound
Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco
Publication Date: October 2008
ISBN 978-08118-6333-9

"Library of Dust, from the photographer David Maisel, may well be this year's most haunting book of images. It is a collection of photographs of copper canisters, each containing the unclaimed remains of a patient from a psychiatric hospital in Oregon (the same one used for filming "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"). Rivulets of chemical corrosion, almost oceanic in their intense coloring, run down the sides. Mr. Maisel's book is a fevered meditation on memory, loss, and the uncanny monuments we sometimes recover about what has gone before."

—from The New York Times, November 28, 2008

Cascade Effect

Photographs by David Maisel
Poem by Susan Stewart
16 pages, 8 color reproductions, and one original print
Casebound 5.75" x 7.5"
Nazraeli Press, One Picture Book No 49
Publication Date: Fall 2008
ISBN 978-1-59005-234-1

In this elegant volume, Nazraeli Press publishes images made by Maisel more than 20 years ago of clear-cut logging sites in Maine. The title refers to environmental crises triggered by extinctions within an ecosystem. This book is published in a limited edition of 500.

 

Oblivion

Photographs and text by David Maisel
Essay by William L. Fox
48 pp., 12”x12”, casebound
Published by Nazraeli Press, 2006
ISBN 1-59005-182-3

"The term “shadowland” that Maisel uses when discussing the Oblivion photographs is appropriate. When you cast a shadow on a fact, you create doubt. When you shadow someone, you follow them invisibly. Shadowland is what the military calls those blacked-out areas where they wish to operate unseen, whether they are testing an experimental aircraft or interrogating people beyond lawful means. It is a land of spies and spooks, a place where ghosts live, and what Los Angeles looks like in Oblivion. The city is almost recognizable in Maisel's negative prints and yet not quite, as if we are seeing both more of what we know and less."

—excerpted from Shadowlands, by William L. Fox

The Lake Project

Photographs and text by David Maisel
Introductory essay by Robert Sobieszek
56 pp., 14"x14"
Published by Nazraeli Press
ISBN 1-59005-071-1

This monograph is now sold out. To order the limited edition, which includes a book, an original signed print, and an especially designed clamshell box, please see www.nazraeli.com or call 1.503.281.3621

View images from The Lake Project
Read Maisel’s accompanying essay, Report from the Lake

The Lake Project was named one of the Top 25 Photography Books of 2004 by the Village Voice.

"As Mr. Maisel renders it, the lake, which has been drained over the last 90 years to green the lawns and ice the whiskies of Los Angeles, looks scourged and flayed...In Mr. Maisel’s photos, the vistas are majestic, terrifying, and weirdly beautiful. They seem more intimate than microscopic data, vaster than extraterrestrial space."

—from The New York Times, May 9, 2004

Terminal Mirage

Catalogue to gallery exhibitions
Essay by Anne Tucker
20 pages, 8" x 8"
14 color reproductions
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