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2006
In Oblivion, composed of black-and-white aerial photos of Los Angeles and its periphery, photographer David Maisel captures the contemporary metropolis with a sense of dystopia: it appears sprawling and seemingly endless, with its highways and exit ramps, strip malls and block of urban development. Through the use of inverted tonalities, the city is defamiliarized and abstracted even further
12 × 11.8 in
978-1-59005-182-5
