Floating Island / Mike Osborne.

[Hillsborough, North Carolina] : Daylight Books, [2014]

©2014

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 34 cm

BEIN Leclair iPL 1050: Dust jacket. From the Indie Photobook Library/Larissa Leclair Collection.

"Austin-based photographer Mike Osborne's 'Floating Island' revolves around the border-straddling community of Wendover, Utah and West Wendover, Nevada. Once home to an important World War II aviation training facility, the town is now a gaming destination with five sprawling casinos. In addition to tracing this historical trajectory, Osborne's photographs reflect on the surrounding landscape's fantastical aspects. The book's title, Floating Island, refers to a small mountain located at the heart of the nearby Bonneville Salt Flats. Due to a mirage, the mountain appears to hover perpetually above the horizon. Drawing on the phenomenon of the mirage--a real illusion--Osborne merges documentary and cinematic approaches to produce photographs that respect the particularities of the site while also exploring the myths and fantasies that it inspire"--Publisher.

English

January 16, 2018