Terminal Mirage.(Great Salt Lake, dangerously beautiful?)(Brief article)

For more than 20 years David Maisel has been making large-scale aerial photographs of "sites that have undergone some intense cataclysmic transformation." Since 2003 Maisel has been photographing Utah's Great Salt Lake, fascinated by "the claustrophobic, no-exit, existentialist aspect" of a lake with no natural outlet. He calls the project Terminal Mirage. [??] The Great Salt Lake is rich in sodium, magnesium, potassium, and other substances with important industrial applications. Three sides of the lake are flanked by evaporation ponds (top left), from which six corporations extract nearly two million tons of chemicals each year. The best-known of these is U.S. Magnesium, …