PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Twelve thousand years ago most of the Great Basin––that part of the country between California and Utah where water does not drain to the ocean—was 900 feet underwater, covered by two vast and now largely evaporated historical lakes, Bonneville and Lahontan. The shrunken remnants of Lake Bonneville today are the Great Salt Lake in Utah and its eponymous salt flats, while the best known portion of the former Lake Lahontan is the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, an alkali bed that floods and dries each year, creating the flattest topography on earth, home to the annual counterculture festival Burning Man.
Piloting his 600-pound aircraft at low elevations, Light explores this mythic space deeply and abstractly, finding in the emptiness as much evidence of our presence as absence—and revealing heretofore unseen palimpsests of vehicular and urban glyphics that come and go with the seasons. Reflecting Light’s ongoing survey themes of mapping, perceptual orientation, and human impact on the land, but in a newly minimal and psychological direction, Lake Lahontan | Lake Bonneville offers an elegiac and forceful look at the politics of erasure.
2019 LAKE LAHONTAN/LAKE BONNEVILLE
Essays by William L. Fox, Leah Ollman, and Charles Hood, two opposed books in a single hardcover binding, removable center map insert, 16" x10.5", 140 pages, 58 color images. Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM. $60.
2014 LAKE LAS VEGAS/BLACK MOUNTAIN
Essays by Rebecca Solnit and Lucy Lippard, two removable softcover books in a hardcover binding, 16" x10.5", 128 pages, 52 color illustrations. Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM. $60.
2011 LA DAY/LA NIGHT
Text by Lawrence Weschler and David Ulin, hardbound, 16"x10.5", 72 pages, 34 duotone illustrations. Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM. $60.
2009 BINGHAM MINE/GARFIELD STACK
Essay by Trevor Paglen, hardbound, 16"x10.5", 48 pages, 21 duotone illustrations. Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM. $50.
2008 SOME DRY SPACE: An Inhabited West
Essay by Ann Wolfe, softcover, 12.5"x8", 48 pages, 23 images. Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. $15.
2003 100 SUNS
Hardbound, 208 pages, 100 color and b/w plates, 13.25"x10"
US: Alfred A. Knopf, New York. $75, third printing.
BUY BOOK
UK: Jonthan Cape, London. £40, second printing.
BUY BOOK
GERMANY: Knesebeck Verlag, Munich SOLD OUT
FRANCE: Editions de la Martiniere, Paris SOLD OUT
ITALY: Contrasto Due, Rome SOLD OUT
SWEDEN: Max Strom, Stockholm SOLD OUT
1999 FULL MOON
Hardbound, 244 pages, 57 b/w and 72 color plates, 11.75"x11.75"
US: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, SOLD OUT.
BUY BOOK
UK: Jonathan Cape, London SOLD OUT
GERMANY: Frederking & Thaler, Munich SOLD OUT
FRANCE: Editions de la Martiniere, Paris SOLD OUT
JAPAN: Shinchosha Publishing, Tokyo SOLD OUT
ITALY: Mondadori, Milan SOLD OUT
SPAIN: Lunwerg Editores, Madrid SOLD OUT
SWEDEN: Max Strom, Stockholm SOLD OUT
1993 RANCH
Essay by Rebecca Solnit, hardbound, 9"x7", 96 pages, 45 plates. Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM. $40