Daniel Mirer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and currently resides in the Bay Area of California, where he works as an artist and educator. Daniel Mirer received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the California Institute of the Arts. Mirer's artwork is part of museum and institution collections such as Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. He works as an international artist an commercial photographer in the field of architecture.
Daniel's creative research primarily uses photography and video to explore the cultural aspects of the Western American landscape that reflect the American persona. The Western landscape is linked to the ideological political use of Western space as a subjective metaphor for notions of the untamed hostile wilderness, seeming lifelessness and void. By photographing the sentimental representations of the mythic frontier, the images show tourist sites and places that are familiar but show a background layer of the picturesqueness of an ideal American landscape. The Western American landscape re-contextualizes reality and is indifferent to historical facts, establishing an American psyche of the make-believe, which has become a self-referent notion of ambiguity.
- Website art projects: https://www.danielmirer.com
- Website commercial architecture photography: https://www.danielmirerphotographer.info
- Website Thingstätten project: https://thingstaetten.info/de/portfolio-daniel-mirer_thingstaetten
