Mapping and Photographing: Seeing the Unseeable in the American Landscape “Photography, for me, is a way to see the unseeable and to capture the unimaginable”—an extended conversation with one of the great contemporary landscape artists dealing with the American West, David Maisel. Interview with David Maisel Mapping and Photographing: Seeing the Unseeable in the American Landscape “Photography, for me, is a way to see the unseeable and to capture the unimaginable”—an extended conversation with one of the great contemporary landscape artists dealing with the American West, David Maisel. Among others, t he eminent American photographer David Maisel presented his work in a dialogue with curator William A. Ewing. In advance of their talk, LensCulture Managing Editor Alexander Strecker reached out to Maisel via telephone to learn more about his background. This is an edited transcript of their conversation.