David Maisel was born in New York City in 1961 and now lives and works in the San Francisco area. His photographs, multi-media projects, and public installations have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many permanent collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. His work has been the subject of three monographs:
The Lake Project (Nazraeli Press, 2004),
Oblivion (Nazraeli Press, 2006), and
Library of Dust (Chronicle Books, 2008). A portfolio of Maisel's work is also available in
Daylight Issue #3.