Michael Light
photographer
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]
- environment
- landscape representation
- human impact on land
- aerial photography
- geologic time
Books
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Ranch€20.00
Works by Michael Light
- 1993 Ranch Features text by Rebecca Solnit and a collection of 45 gravure images.
- 2008 Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West
- 2003 100 Suns Focused on the politics and landscape meanings of military photographs of U.S. atmospheric nuclear detonations from 1945 to 1962.
- 1999 Full Moon Used lunar geological survey imagery made by the Apollo astronauts.
Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship