Playa Works: The Myth Of The Empty

Illustrations

Compass rose,Edwards Air Force Base,Rogers Dry Lake,30 Bombing targets constructed by Lockheed Martin Corporation,30 Radar target,30 Simulated surface-to-air missile complex target,30 Jean Tinguely,Étude pour une Fin du monde n.2 (control board),33 Jean Tinguely,Étude pour une Fin du monde n.2 (detonation),33 Live-fire demonstration on dry lake of Nellis Range Complex,58 Audience for live-fire demonstration,58 Yucca Flat,64 Enola Gay hangar,81 Camera obscura from Five InterpretedViews:An Obscura Excursion by Jeremy Kunkle,90 Wind-propelled drawing devices by John Reed and Jennifer Odem, 94–95 Wall of Clang by James Harbison,97 Swimming pool in Keeler,Nevada,117 Wassergeist on Owens Dry Lake,California,118 Working water-cooler in Algodones Dunes,California,119 Illustrations viii Illustrations Frederick W.von Egloffstein,“Valley of the Mud Lakes” ,132-33 “Gravel Embankments on South Border of the Carson Desert, Nevada” , 136 Gabe Kircheimer,Aerial 1,163 Mark Klett,image of mirage,199 Color Plates (following page 76) Robert Cole Caples,Red Mountain Stuart D.Klipper,Road to Bonneville Raceway,Utah Richard Misrach,Ammunition Storage Bunkers,Wendover Air Base,Utah Richard Misrach,Downed Safety Cone,Bonneville Salt Flats,Utah Craig Sheppard,Black Rock Desert Michael Moore,Black Rock Desert,October 6 Mike Woolson,TheTemple of the Mind by David Best—Before Mike Woolson,TheTemple of the Mind by David Best—After ...