Michael Light (born 1963) is a San Francisco-based photographer and book maker whose work focuses on landscape, the environment, and American culture's relationship to both.Knight, Christopher

''Los Angeles Times'', August 4, 2000. Retrieved October 7, 2021.Baker, Kenneth. "Light on Landscape," ''San Francisco Chronicle'', March 11, 2007, p. E10.Farmer, Sophia Maxine
"Capturing the Void: Michael Light’s Aerial Photographs of the American West,"
''Getty Research Journal'', Vol. 16, 2022. Retrieved November 3, 2022. He is known for aerial photographs of American western landscapes collectively titled "Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West" and for two archival projects focused on historical photographs of the

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and U.S. atmospheric nuclear detonation tests, represented by the books ''Full Moon'' (1999) and ''100 Suns'' (2003), respectively.Loke, Margaret
"How the Moon Turns Pilots Into Poets,"
''The New York Times'', May 18, 1999, p. F5. Retrieved October 7, 2021.Holmes, Anna

''The New York Times'', March 31, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2021.Baker, Kenneth
"With time running out, '100 Suns' puts a spotlight back on 'Doomsday Clock,'"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', November 1, 2003. Retrieved October 11, 2021. ''Los Angeles Times'' critic Leah Ollman characterized his work as "largely about what we consider ours, how we act on that assumption, and what the visual manifestations of those claims look like ... tseduces and troubles in shifting measure."Ollman, Leah
"Michael Light at Craig Krull Gallery,"
''Los Angeles Times'', May 6, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2021. Light's projects have been exhibited at museums including

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(SFMOMA),Long, Andrew
"Earth, Moon and Stars,"
''Salon'', November 11, 1999. Retrieved October 7, 2021.

American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconn ...

,Lane, Anthony
"The Light Side of the Moon,"
''The New Yorker'', April 10, 2000. Retrieved October 7, 2021.

Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Royal ...

(London),Morton, Oliver, "They Could See The Stars," ''Times Literary Supplement'', August 20, 1999.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), formerly the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, is located on George Street in The Rocks neighbourhood of Sydney. The museum is housed in the Stripped Classical/Art Deco-styled former Maritime ...

,Cotter, Suzanne
''Full Moon: Apollo Mission Photographs of the Lunar Landscape''
Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001. Retrieved October 21, 2021. and

Nevada Museum of Art The Nevada Museum of Art, is an art museum in Reno, Nevada. Located at 160 West Liberty Street in Reno, it is the only American Alliance of Museums (AAM) accredited art museum in the state of Nevada. The museum has chosen a thematic approach, pl ...

.Paglen, Trevor
"Best of 2008/"Some Dry Space: Michael Light,"
''Artforum'', December 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2021. His work belongs to the collections of the

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

(LACMA),Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Michael Light
Collections. Retrieved October 21, 2021.

Victoria & Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...

(London),Victoria & Albert Museum
Michael Light
Collections. Retrieved October 21, 2021.

Hasselblad Foundation The Hasselblad Foundation was established in 1979 at the will of Victor Hasselblad, as a fully independent, not-for-profit foundation based at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The main aim of the foundation is to promote research and academic ...

,Hasselblad Foundation
Michael Light
Collection. Retrieved October 21, 2021. and SFMOMA,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Michael Light
Artists. Retrieved October 21, 2021. among others.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
"Michael Light,"
Fellows. Retrieved October 7, 2021. In 2007, Light was awarded a

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in photography.

Early life and career

Light was born in

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in 1963 to land conservationist Deborah Ann Light and painter Robert Thomas Taugner.Weschler, Lawrence
"Michael Light in Conversation,"
''The Believer'', November 1, 2010. Retrieved October 11, 2021.Spangler, Nicholas
"Deborah Ann Light dies; pharmaceutical heiress, philanthropist was 80,"
''Newsday'' (Long Island), August 27, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2021. He grew up in

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, on land that in 1990 became Quail Hill Farm, an early

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(CSA) farm in the U.S., and New York's first. Chaskey, Scott
"In Memory of Deborah Ann Light, Benefactor of Quail Hill Farm,"
''Edible East End'', September 3, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2021.Talty, Alexandra
"Volunteers save New York's oldest community farm as Covid-19 hits agriculture,"
''The Guardian'', July 30, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2021. His great-uncle was

Richard Upjohn Light Richard Upjohn Light (1902–1994) was an American neurosurgeon, aviator, cinematographer, and former president of the American Geographical Society. Early life After studying at Culver Military Academy, Light earned an undergraduate degree from ...

, a neurosurgeon, cinematographer,

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president and aviator, who in 1934—seven years after

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's Atlantic flight—made a near round-the-world trip in a seaplane.Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery
"Cyber Museum Featured Exhibit, Dr. Richard Light's Seaplane Cruise Around The World"
Retrieved October 21, 2021. Michael Light himself learned to fly before he could drive, soloing in gliders at fourteen and earning a pilot’s license when he was sixteen.Zack, Jessica
"The Marks We Make: Michael Light,"
''Alta Magazine'', Spring 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021.Mallonee, Laura
"The Traces of Human Activity in the Burning Man Void,”
''Wired'', September 19, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2021. After receiving a BA in American Studies from

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in 1986, Light moved west to attend the

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. He earned an MFA in Photography in 1993, focusing on landscape imagery while also studying informally with conceptual photographer

Larry Sultan Larry Sultan (July 13, 1946 – December 13, 2009) was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco 1 ...

.Feuerhelm, Brad
"Michael Light,"
''Nearest Truth'', 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2021. His early black-and-white work appears in his book ''Ranch'' (1993, Twin Palms Publishers), which documents the brute realities of the cattle business on one of California's last traditional ranches.Haederle, Michael

''Los Angeles Times'', January 20, 1994. Retrieved October 7, 2021.Light, Michael
''Ranch''
essay by Rebecca Solnit, Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 1993. Retrieved October 21, 2021. Beginning in the 2000s, Light combined his interests in flying and landscape to produce aerial photographic series shot from self-piloted and rented aircraft.Westerbeck, Colin

''Los Angeles Times'' West Magazine, August 27, 2006, p. 9. Retrieved October 7, 2021.

Work

Light has focused on epic subjects—human mythologies and environmental impacts, geology, the Apollo Moon missions, nuclear bomb tests—examined through expansive views of landscape.Leydier, Richard. "Michael Light," ''Art Press 343'', 2007, p. 82.Porges, Maria
"Michael Light at Palo Alto Art Center,"
''Square Cylinder'', August 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2021. Writer

Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Weschler (born 1952 in Van Nuys, California) is an American author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981–2002) a staff ...

described Light as "a photographer of the

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," whose work, "by turns fiercely political and achingly rhapsodic … has come to focus, with gathering power and lucidity, on the rapture and the rupture that are man’s trace on the land." Other critics liken him to photographers exploring beauty and toxicity, such as

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and

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, while characterizing his concerns as less overtly environmental and more romantic.Ollman, Leah
"Paintings that read as anything but,"
''Los Angeles Times'', October 21, 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2021.Sholis, Brian
"Critic's Picks: Michael Light,"
''Artforum'', June 2007. Retrieved October 7, 2021.Kroeber, Gavin
"Suburban Futurism,"
''Art In America'', December 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2021.Ollman, Leah

''Los Angeles Times'', July 22, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2021. While Light frequently exhibits prints, his primary format is the book—both handmade and published formats—which allows for greater elaboration of his subjects.Thompson, David
"Exposure: Michael Light Profile,"
''Eye Magazine'', Spring 2004. Retrieved October 11, 2021.Reed, Rixon
"2019 Favorite Photobooks,"
''Photo-Eye'', December 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2021.

Archival photographic works

Light's archival projects, ''Full Moon'' and ''100 Suns'', are concerned with power, landscape and the human relationship to vastness.''The New York Times''

October 21, 2003, p. F3. Retrieved October 7, 2021. He explored these themes in books and exhibitions that eschewed polemics in favor of narrative, interpretive curation and matter-of-fact presentation: historical images with little or no text that proffered "the quotidian bumping gently into the unprecedented," according to ''New Yorker'' critic

Anthony Lane Anthony Lane is a British journalist who was a film critic for ''The New Yorker'' magazine from 1993 to 2024. Career Education and early career Lane attended Sherborne School, graduating with a degree in English from Trinity College, Cambrid ...

.Helfand, Glen
"Critic's Picks: Michael Light,”
''Artforum'', November 2003. Retrieved October 7, 2021.DeLano, Sharon. "On Photography: Darkness Visible," ''The New Yorker'', October 6, 2003. Light's book ''Full Moon'' (1999) comprised 129 largely unpublished images taken by astronauts on the 1968–72 lunar missions, which he culled from more than 33,000 stills in the

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archive. He digitally scanned master duplicates of the original film, reproducing the precise detail (dust, craters, mountains and seas) and "airless clarity" created by the vacuum of space. He then organized the images into a "composite" mission—including sophisticated, multi-image photomontages—of journey, spacewalking and return to Earth, to tell a less traditional, more human and personal story. Reviews described the resulting landscapes as dazzling and terrifying, "strangely fragile and tranquil," and visually disorienting in their collapse of spatial reality; ''Los Angeles Times'' critic Christopher Knight wrote that Light's method produced an exhilarating "dual sense of scientific reality and science fiction." For ''100 Suns'' (2003), Light selected one hundred images of atmospheric nuclear bomb tests from the US National Archives and

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holdings—many made anonymously between 1945 and 1962. After scanning (and occasionally retouching) the stark images, he organized them into an escalating narrative that reviews described as "sickeningly seductive" in its "eerie radiance" and ghastly in its ramifications. ''Artforums Glen Helfand wrote that the texture, deceptive scale, and spectacle (particularly glowing, saturated-orange images of

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s) "offer an ambivalent, engrossing mixture of beauty, hindsight, and horror," often belied by images of troops in goggles casually witnessing blasts at shockingly close range from Adirondack chairs.Schwendener, Martha
"Building the Unthinkable,"
Review, ''Artforum'', September 2004. Retrieved October 7, 2021.

Aerial photography projects

Light's aerial work is largely contained within his ongoing, multi-series "Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West" project, which includes exhibitions of large-format, limited-edition, hand-made books (often displayed on tripods) and prints, as well as four published books. Often shot low to the ground from vertiginous, tilted angles, these images examine the scars created by intensive strip mining and industrialization, urbanization, land development and human movement.Mobley, Chuck. "Michael Light at Hosfelt Gallery," ''Art on Paper'', May/June 2009, p. 91. Light chooses mainly western locales—the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, Utah's Bingham Canyon Mine (the largest man-made excavation), ex-urban luxury housing developments outside Phoenix and Las Vegas, and the

Great Basin The Great Basin () is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets to the ocean, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja Californi ...

desert—for their aridness and lack of vegetation, which allow unobscured views of human impacts.Canedo-Gattegno, Rodrigo
"Michael Light’s Erratic Terrain,"
''The New Yorker'', October 21 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2021.Saltz, Jerry
"To Do: #2 See Michael Light: Some Dry Space,"
''New York Magazine'', December 11, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2021. Critics have described the series as balanced between surreal beauty and unmerciful depiction,Aletti, Vince. "Michael Light" ''The New Yorker'', January 13, 2014, p. 10. offering elegies that "entomb the information by which we will be judged in the future" and a "metaphor for the shock-and-awe violence characterizing American frontiers past, present, and future." Light's Los Angeles work (2004–5) consists of harsh and analytical, black-and-white day images of cityscapes, snarling freeways, the central river, railway and industrial yards—often shot directly into the sun with glaring white skies—and soft, improvisatory, largely black and abstract night images.Ulin, David L
"LA. Day/L.A. Night,"
''Places'', April 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2021. His color images of built and half-built resort communities (including the "Lake Las Vegas" and "Black Mountain" series, 2010–2) capture incongruous palettes of golf-course greens and swimming-pool blues and abstract patterns of

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mountains graded into building pads that seem collaged onto stark desert terrain.Huston, Johnny Ray. "Michael Light: New Work," ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', February 25, 2009, p. 38.Rothman, Aaron
"Above Lake Las Vegas,"
''Places'', December 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2021.Teicher, Jordan

''Slate'', October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2021. Often left to revert to sagebrush in bankruptcy, the aborted developments resemble abandoned mining operations, leading writers to note an "ugly convergence"Baker, Kenneth
"Light and Ballantyne at Hosfelt,"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', December 21, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2021. between expansionism and the American dream, the economic vertigo of conspicuous consumption and housing market collapses, and the ecological nightmares of heavy industry.George, Kendall
"Private Frontiers: Chris Ballantyne & Michael Light at Hosfelt Gallery,"
''SF Arts Quarterly'', Winter 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2021. In the "Lake Lahontan" and "Lake Bonneville" (both 2017–8) series, Light captured spiraling swirls of vehicle tracks, roads and trails and "city" grids from

Burning Man Burning Man is a week-long large-scale desert event focused on "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance" held annually in the Western United States. The event's name comes from its ceremony on the penultimate night of the event: the ...

etched into the Nevada desert and Utah salt flats; reviews liken them to historical human traces (North American wagon trails, Apollo mission rover paths) and, in form, to abstract

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paintings, the calligraphic drawings of

Cy Twombly Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor, and photographer. Twombly influenced artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, and Jean-Michel Bas ...

, and graffiti.

Publications

* ''Ranch''. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 1993. With essay by

Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. Solnit is the author of seventeen books, including '' River of Shadows'', whi ...

. * ''Full Moon''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. With essays by Andrew Chaikin and Michael Light. 12 global editions. * ''100 Suns: 1945-1962''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Six global editions. * ''Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West''. Reno, NV: Nevada Museum of Art, 2008. With essays by Ann M Wolfe and William L Fox. * ''Bingham Mine/Garfield Stack''. Santa Fe, NM: Radius, 2009. With essay by

Trevor Paglen Trevor Paglen (born 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work covers mass surveillance and data collection. In 2016, Paglen won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and he has also won The Cultural Award from the ...

. * ''LA Day/LA Night''. Santa Fe, NM: Radius, 2010. With interview by

and essay by David L Ulin. * ''Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain''. Santa Fe, NM: Radius, 2014. With essays by Rebecca Solnit and

Lucy Lippard Lucy Rowland Lippard (born April 14, 1937) is an American writer, art critic, activist, and curator. Lippard was among the first writers to argue for the " dematerialization" at work in conceptual art and was an early champion of feminist art. ...

. * ''Lake Lahontan/Lake Bonneville''. Santa Fe, NM: Radius, 2019. With essays by Charles Hood, William L Fox, and Leah Ollman.

Awards

*2007:

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Award''Artforum''
"Artadia Announces 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artist Awardees,"
November 19, 2007. Retrieved October 7, 2021.Artadia
Michael Light, Artadia Awardee
Artists. Retrieved November 12, 2021.

Collections

Light's work is held in the following permanent collections: *

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ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image)
"Drift,"
Works. Retrieved November 12, 2021. *

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. FAMSF's combined attendance was 1,1 ...

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
"Wild West: Plains to the Pacific."
Retrieved November 13, 2021. *Getty Research InstituteThe Getty Research Institute. Selected Special Collections Acquisitions Made between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2005, ''The J. Paul Getty Trust 2004–2005 Report'', 2006, p. 49. *Hasselblad Foundation *

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography is the oldest photography museum in Amsterdam. The museum is housed in a monumental canal house at Keizersgracht 401. Since 1999, it has served as the first museum in the Netherlands fully dedicated to photog ...

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Michael Light
Photographers. Retrieved November 12, 2021. *LACMA *

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Bellinetti, Caterina
"The Stories They Tell: A Hundred Years of Photography,"
''Art & Object'', November 25, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2021.Evans, Julia Dixon
"Culture Report: Photography's Dynamic Past and Promising Future,"
''Voice of San Diego'', October 8, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2021. *SFMOMA *

San Jose Museum of Art The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum in downtown San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1969, the museum holds a permanent collection with an emphasis on West Coast artists of the 20th and 21st cent ...

San Jose Museum of Art
"Indestructible Wonder"
Exhibition. Retrieved October 21, 2021. *Santa Barbara Museum of ArtSanta Barbara Museum of Art
Southern Lunar Hemisphere, Michael Light
Objects. Retrieved November 12, 2021. *Victoria & Albert Museum

References

External links

*
Michael Light in Conversation
with Lawrence Weschler, ''The Believer'', 2010
Ann M. Wolfe, Michael Light, Mark Klett
''The Modern Art Notes Podcast'', Episode No. 213
Michael Light interview
''Nearest Truth'', Episode 70, 2019 {{DEFAULTSORT:Light, Michael 21st-century American photographers 20th-century American photographers American landscape photographers American book artists Artists from San Francisco San Francisco Art Institute alumni 1963 births Living people