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Interviews from The Believer: Michael Light

The Believer | Wednesday, Dec 01, 2010


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MICHAEL LIGHT
[PHOTOGRAPHER]

IN CONVERSATION WITH LAWRENCE WESCHLER
 

“IT WAS A SOFT, WARM SUMMER JULY NIGHT, AND THE ABSURD PLEASURE OF FLOATING OVER THE LARGEST AGGLOMERATION OF TWINKLING HUMAN TRIUMPH AND CALAMITY EVER WITNESSED TOOK OVER.”
The primary components of Los Angeles:
Light
Space


Michael Light is a San Francisco–based artist and bookmaker whose work, by turns fiercely political and achingly rhapsodic, and not infrequently both at once, has come to focus, with gathering power and lucidity, on the rapture and the rupture that are man’s trace on the land.

Read the entire interview here: http://www.believermag.com/issues/201011/?read=interview_light_weschler