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David Maisel is an entertainment visionary, film and theater producer, and the architect of the self-financed and self-producing Marvel Studios. He is the Executive Producer of Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Angry Birds Movie. At the helm of Livent, Maisel won the Tony Award for Best ...
Natural resource extraction and its consequences are themes central to Maisel’s photographic practice for nearly thirty years. Through aerial photography, the interlinked series Black Maps , The Mining Project, and American Mine explore sites across the United States that have been radically and irretrievably transformed by open pit mining.
The Lake Project comprises images from Owens Lake, the site of a formerly 200 square-mile lake in California on the eastern side of the Sierra Mountains. Beginning in 1913, the Owens River was diverted into the Owens Valley Aqueduct, to bring water to the fledgling desert city of Los Angeles. By 1926, the lake had been depleted, exposing vast ...
Jun 5, 2023 · One late-summer weekend in 2003, a talent-agency executive named David Maisel was in his sweatpants, in the loft of his L.A. apartment. He had spent two years at the Endeavor agency, and he was ...
Terminal Mirage. Inspired by Robert Smithson’s writings on the Great Salt Lake, Maisel embarked upon an aerial survey of this surreal, apocalyptic, and strangely beautiful region. Terminal Mirage examines the periphery of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, including zones of mineral evaporation ponds and macabre industrial pollution covering some ...
Mar 27, 2018 · For his next Geffen-esque act, he is leaping more fully into film, partnering with David Maisel, the founding chairman of Marvel Studios, to form a new company, Mythos Studios, which aspires to ...
David Maisel. Fellow: Awarded 2018. Field of Study: Photography. Competition: US & Canada. David Maisel is a visual artist working in photography and video whose work has explored hidden landscapes, archives, and histories of the American west for more than three decades. Proving Ground, his most current series, examines the site of Dugway ...
