File:Michael Light Lake Bonneville 2017.jpg

Photograph by Michael Light, Salt Tracks Looking Northwest, Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Wendover, Utah (2017). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Michael Light's career beginning in the 2010s, when he produced aerial photographic series (part of an ongoing "Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West" project), as prints, limited-edition, handmade books, and four published books. Shot low to the ground from vertiginous, tilted angles, the photographs examine the human "scars" left on largely barren American western landscapes, in this case, spiraling swirls of vehicle tracks, roads and trails etched into the Utah and Nevada desert's Lake Bonneville. These photographs and books were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Michael Light. Copyright held by the artist.

Michael Light

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Michael Light's career beginning in the 2010s: his aerial photographic series contained within the multi-series "Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West" project, which has included exhibitions of large-format, limited-edition, handmade books, and four published books. These photographs examine the scars created by intensive strip mining and industrialization, urbanization, land development and human movement, primarily in largely barren American western locales. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this stage and body of work, which brought Light continuing recognition through exhibitions in major venues and coverage by major critics and publications. Light's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Michael Light, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.