Michael Light is a San Francisco-based photographer and bookmaker whose work focuses on the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to it. A private pilot and Guggenheim Fellow in photography, he has exhibited globally and his work is held in major museum collections including the SFMOMA, The Getty Research Institute, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known for his aerial photographs of American western landscapes and archival projects such as 'Full Moon' (lunar imagery) and '100 Suns' (nuclear detonation photos).[1,2,3,4]
Ranch1993 · Twin Palms Publishers · book · EnglishISBN 094409225XFeatures text by Rebecca Solnit and a collection of 45 gravure images.
Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West2008 · Nevada Museum of Art · book
100 Suns2003 · Alfred A. Knopf · bookFocused on the politics and landscape meanings of military photographs of U.S. atmospheric nuclear detonations from 1945 to 1962.
Full Moon1999 · Alfred A. Knopf · bookUsed lunar geological survey imagery made by the Apollo astronauts.
Awards
Guggenheim FellowshipJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
References
Michael Light official website (publications and bio) link
