Author: David Maisel
Title: The Lake Project # 9810 - 11, 2002
Description: [Los Angeles, CA]: David Maisel, 2002. Color Print, 7.5" x 7.5" (image), Very Good. The Lake Project # 9810 - 11 Beginning in 1913, Owens Lake was drained and diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in order to supply water to the desert city of Los Angeles. In the intervening decades, the now-dry and exposed lakebed became the highest source of particulate matter pollution in North America, emitting some 300,000 tons of such matter annually--thirty tons of it arsenic, nine tons of it cadmium. In 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency began to manipulate the surface of Owens Lake, in an effort to quell the toxic dust storms originating there. Seen from the air, this damaged wasteland appears both spectacular and otherworldly. This image shows a mere section of the periphery of the enormously complex flood zone that the EPA is assembling, like the lost city of Atlantis, on the lakebed's floor. From the collection of UC Berkeley art historian Peter Selz (1919 - 2019). .
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Title: The Lake Project # 9810 - 11, 2002
Description: [Los Angeles, CA]: David Maisel, 2002. Color Print, 7.5" x 7.5" (image), Very Good. The Lake Project # 9810 - 11 Beginning in 1913, Owens Lake was drained and diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in order to supply water to the desert city of Los Angeles. In the intervening decades, the now-dry and exposed lakebed became the highest source of particulate matter pollution in North America, emitting some 300,000 tons of such matter annually--thirty tons of it arsenic, nine tons of it cadmium. In 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency began to manipulate the surface of Owens Lake, in an effort to quell the toxic dust storms originating there. Seen from the air, this damaged wasteland appears both spectacular and otherworldly. This image shows a mere section of the periphery of the enormously complex flood zone that the EPA is assembling, like the lost city of Atlantis, on the lakebed's floor. From the collection of UC Berkeley art historian Peter Selz (1919 - 2019). .
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Price: US$ 250.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 63-9397
- Book number: 63-9397
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