Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically alteredterrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that spanMaisel's career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragicmetaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today. Maisel's images of environmentallyimpacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zonesof water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the LosAngeles Times has stated, "argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass thedamaged, the transmuted, the decomposed."