Research Catalog

Title

Michael Light : Lake Lahontan ; Lake Bonneville / Michael Light.

Author

Light, Michael

Publication

• Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2019]
• New York, NY : Artbook : D.A.P., [2019]
• Verona, Italy : Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ollman, Leah
• Fox, William L., 1949-
• Hood, Charles

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 42 x 27 cm +

Summary

San Francisco-based photographer Michael Light's (born 1963) fourth Radius book in his aerial series' Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West' journeys into the vast geological space and time of the Great Basin -- the heart of a storied national "void" that is both actual and psychological, treasured as much for its tabula rasa possibilities as it is hated for its utter hostility to human needs. Twelve thousand years ago most of the Great Basin was 900 feet underwater, covered by two vast and now largely evaporated Pleistocene lakes: the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the remnants comprising Pyramid Lake, Honey Lake, the Carson Sink and Walker Lake. The most famous portion of the former Lake Lahontan is the Black Rock Desert, the site of the fastest land speed record and the annual counterculture festival Burning Man. The topography now exposed by both Pleistocene lakes forms a mythic core to American Western concepts of space.

Uniform Title

Photographs. Selections (2019)

Alternative Title

• Photographs.
• Lake Bonneville.

Subject

• Light, Michael
• Aerial photography > Lahontan, Lake
• Aerial photography > Bonneville, Lake
• Aerial photography > Great Basin
• Aerial photography
• Great Basin > Pictorial works
• United States > Great Basin
• United States > Lake Bonneville
• United States > Lake Lahontan

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

• The two titles are bound back-to-back and upside down, with the map in a pocket between them.
• Includes essays by Leah Ollman (in Lake Bonneville section), William L. Fox (on map), and Charles Hood (in Lake Lahontan section).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQH 20-7

ISBN

• 1942185421
• 9781942185420

OCLC

1028824414

Author

Light, Michael, photographer.

Title

Michael Light : Lake Lahontan ; Lake Bonneville / Michael Light.

Publisher

Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2019]

Distributor

New York, NY : Artbook : D.A.P., [2019]

Manufacturer

Verona, Italy : Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

DIST. BY D.A.P. AERIAL IMAGES. INVERTED SIDES, FOCUSING ON EACH LAKE. COLOR. W/ MAP. 10.5" X 16.5"

Added Author

Light, Michael. Lake Lahontan.

Light, Michael. Lake Bonneville.

Ollman, Leah, author.

Fox, William L., 1949- author.

Hood, Charles, author.

Added Title

Lake Bonneville.

Research Call Number

JQH 20-7