Michael Light, Salt Tracks Looking Northwest, Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Wendover, Utah, 2017.
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.[1][2][3] 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 Apollo lunar missions and U.S. atmospheric nuclear detonation tests, represented by the books Full Moon (1999) and 100 Suns (2003), respectively.[4][5][6]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 ... [It] seduces and troubles in shifting measure."[7]
Light's projects have been exhibited at museums including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),[8] American Museum of Natural History,[9] Hayward Gallery (London),[10] Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,[11] and Nevada Museum of Art.[12] His work belongs to the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),[13] Victoria & Albert Museum (London),[14] Hasselblad Foundation,[15] and SFMOMA,[16] among others.[17] In 2007, Light was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography.[17]
^Knight, Christopher. "Puzzling Landscapes Happily Lost in Space," 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.
^Loke, Margaret. "How the Moon Turns Pilots Into Poets," The New York Times, May 18, 1999, p. F5. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
^Holmes, Anna. "When It Comes to Reading, Is Pleasure Suspect?" 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.
^Ollman, Leah. "Michael Light at Craig Krull Gallery," Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
^Long, Andrew. "Earth, Moon and Stars," Salon, November 11, 1999. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
^Lane, Anthony. "The Light Side of the Moon," The New Yorker, April 10, 2000. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
^Morton, Oliver, "They Could See The Stars," Times Literary Supplement, August 20, 1999.
^Cotter, Suzanne. Full Moon: Apollo Mission Photographs of the Lunar Landscape, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
^Paglen, Trevor. "Best of 2008/"Some Dry Space: Michael Light," Artforum, December 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
^Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Michael Light, Collections. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
^Victoria & Albert Museum. Michael Light, Collections. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
^Hasselblad Foundation. Michael Light, Collection. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
^San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Michael Light, Artists. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
^ abJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. "Michael Light," Fellows. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
MichaelLight (born 1963) is a San Francisco-based photographer and book maker whose work focuses on landscape, the environment, and American culture's...
2021. The film was released on March 15, 2024. In 2015, in Costa Rica, MichaelLight, an American runner, and his adventure racing team gets stuck on the...
Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye. Visible light spans the visible spectrum...
also the founder of Young God Records and previously fronted Angels of Light. Michael Rolfe Gira was born February 19, 1954, in Los Angeles, California to...
until Michael Spinks became the first reigning light heavyweight champion to win the heavyweight championship. Bob Fitzsimmons captured the light-heavyweight...
Light of Day is a 1987 American musical drama film starring Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands and Joan Jett in her film debut. It was written and directed...
George (13 July 2016). "Light Heavyweight Great Michael Spinks Turns 60". World Boxing Association. Retrieved 14 June 2018. Michael Spinks, generally considered...
He was best known for his role as villain Roger Thorpe on CBS's Guiding Light, a role he played from 1971 to 1980 and again from 1989 to 1997, earning...
heavyweight world champion. Michael Moorer was an undefeated southpaw in his first 35 professional bouts. He captured the WBO light heavyweight title in 1988...
Drummond (1797–1840), saw a demonstration of the effect by Michael Faraday and realized that the light would be useful for surveying. Drummond built a working...
Michael Cretu (Romanian: Mihai Crețu, pronounced [miˈhaj ˈkretsu]; born 18 May 1957) is a Romanian-born German musician, composer and record producer...
Peñalosa, who won the belt in 1983. The first light flyweight "superfight" took place on March 13, 1993, when Michael Carbajal, the IBF champion, knocked out...
Angels of Light was an American neofolk band that was formed circa 1998 by singer-songwriter and musician Michael Gira after he disbanded Swans, the group...
Michael Zerafa (born 25 March 1992) is an Australian professional boxer. He held the Commonwealth light middleweight title in 2018. Early in his career...
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Known as the "King of Pop", he...
all possible light rays is given by the five-dimensional plenoptic function, and the magnitude of each ray is given by its radiance. Michael Faraday was...
and Light Heavyweight divisions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and is a former UFC Middleweight Champion, a former Cage Rage Light Heavyweight...
"The Light Phone Company Profile". PitchBook. November 9, 2023. "The Light Phone". www.thelightphone.com. Retrieved March 5, 2022. Zelenko, Michael (September...
White Light (Gene Clark album) and its title track, 1971 White Light (Groove Armada album), 2010 "White Light" (George Michael song), 2012 "White Light" (Superfly...
Magic Light Pictures Limited (founded in 2003 by producers Martin Pope and Michael Rose) is an English London-based independent production company, which...
members named Michael, Mike or Mik; he chose Kelly (a school nickname). ELO then set off on their Eldorado tour. The first Electric Light Orchestra album...
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity is the seventh album by the American experimental rock band Swans. It was released in 1991, through the record...
The Michael Braude Award for Light Verse is a biennial award given for light verse in the English language, regardless of the author's nationality. It...
of Michael Faraday's Writings. CRC Press. ISBN 0-7503-0570-3. p. 125. Zeeman, Pieter (1897). "The Effect of Magnetisation on the Nature of Light Emitted...
Global Information