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Haines Gallery

September 5 - October 27, 2013

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49 Geary Street Fifth Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
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David Maisel: Mining
David Maisel: Mining David Maisel first began to photograph open pit mines from the air in the mid–1980s, intrigued by the radical transformation of the American landscape by the extraction of natural resources. For the past three decades, he has continued to pursue this subject, resulting in a powerful body of work that considers the aesthetics and politics of environmentally impacted sites such as open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. For his fifth exhibition with Haines Gallery, Maisel presents Mining – a selection of photographs from The Mining Project and American Mine, series never before seen at the gallery. These works consider the relationship between nature and humanity, and encompass both stark documentary and tragic metaphor. Mining coincides with the release of Maisel’s new monograph by Steidl, Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, the first in-depth survey of the artist’s aerial projects, which also include The Lake Project, Terminal Mirage and Oblivion. The book includes an introduction from Julian Cox
, essays by Natasha Egan, Geoff Manaugh, Alan Rapp, Kirsten Rian, Joseph Thompson and Kazys Varnelis, and a poem by Mark Strand. Haines Gallery, 49 Geary Street, Fifth Floor, SF, CA Opening Reception, Thursday September 5th, 5:30-7:30pm