- Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach (born in
Los Angeles ,California in 1949) is an Americanphotographer known for his photographs of human intervention in landscapes. His works are represented in more than fifty major museum collections around the world.Infobox Artist
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works = The Terrain, The Event, The Flood, The Fires, The War, The Pit, Desert Seas, The Event II, Project W-47, The Test Site, and The Playboy
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influenced by = Butler Yeats, William Blake and Carlos Castaneda
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awards =Biography
Misrach graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1971. Where he learned photography is unknown. However, he first started photographing with a 35 mm camera with the intent of fostering social change. Since the late 1970s he has photographed using an 8x10 camera and color film. Misrach has one child, Jacob, and lives inPark Slope, Brooklyn .Photography career
Misrach has been photographing the American desert for more than twenty years now. He has a unique gift of photographing a complex landscape and exposing the mysterious and captivating surroundings.
tyle
Misrach’s photographs are not taken for a political reason but issues are attached only after published. When taking photographs of a specific site Misrach thinks of them as being similar to history paintings rather than journalistic photos.
Theme
Misrach has two specific themes the surround all his works. until the “On the Beach” canto Misrach never cropped or digitally enhanced his photographs. For ninety percent of Misrach’s work he used an 8 by 10 camera. The only exception was his trilogy of “Jungles in Hawaii”, “Swamps of Louisiana”, and the “Gardens of Los Angeles” when he created thirty by forty photographs. When staging photos he will also use spotlights and reduces distance to a two and a quarter square format. “Richard Misrach,” Art Institute of Chicago., http://www.artic.edu/ai c/visitor_info/podcasts/artist_talks/misrach.html (accessed
February 17 2008 ) ]Selected Art Works with Links
*Untitled (Saguaro #5, Arizona), 1975, Fraenkel Gallery [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425276160/396/richard-misrach-untitled-saguaro-5-arizona.html]
*Untitled (Ground/Sky/Saguaro Transition, Arizona), 1977, Fraenkel Gallery [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425276163/396/richard-misrach-untitled-groundskysaguaro-transition-arizona.html]
*Hawaii VII, 1978,Pace/MacGill Gallery [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424507935/139022/richard-misrach-hawaii-vii.html]
*Desert Fire # 1, 1983, Stephen Strother Fine Arts [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425446819/424705927/richard-misrach-desert-fire--1.html]
*Submerged Snack Bar, Salton Sea , 1984, Eight Modern [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425487793/425111916/richard-misrach-submerged-snack-bar-salton-sea.html]
*Salton Sea (TV Antenna), 1985, Michel Soskine Inc. [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425055116/112724/richard-misrach-salton-sea-tv-antenna.html]
*Pyramid Lake #6, 1988, Catherine Edelman Gallery [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424523080/112600/richard-misrach-pyramid-lake-5.html]
*World’s Fastest Mobile Home (96 mph), Bonneville Salt Flats, 1992, Fraenkel Gallery [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424484277/396/richard-misrach-worlds-fastest-mobile-home-96-mph-bonneville-salt-flats.html]
*Unnamed Playa, Utah, 1994, SHP Contemporary Fine Art [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425114545/424427346/richard-misrach-unnamed-playa-utah.html]
*View From My Front Porch, Feb 16, 1998 5:08 PM, SHP Contemporary Fine Art [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424899361/424427346/richard-misrach-view-from-my-front-porch-feb-16-1998-508-pm.html]
*Golden Gate, 1999, Hamburg Kennedy Photographs [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425446461/424065188/richard-misrach-golden-gate.html]
*Golden Gate, 2/21/00, 5:32 pm, SHP Contemporary Fine Art [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425114546/424427346/richard-misrach-golden-gate-22100-532-pm.html]elected Exhibitions with Links
*Richard Misrach: Berkeley Work, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive,
August 14 2002 -October 13 2002 http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/misrach
*Richard Misrach: Chronologies, Pace/MacGill Gallery, March 25 -April 22 2006 http://www.pacemacgill.com/press_release_rm06.php
*Richard Misrach: On the Beach, Art Institute of Chicago, September 15 –November 25 2007 http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/beach
*Richard Misrach: On the Beach, National Gallery of Art, May 25 -September 1 2008 http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/misrachinfo.shtmReferences
External links
* [http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26514/richard-misrach/ Interview with Richard Misrach]
* [http://www.artnet.com/awc/richard-misrach.html Richard Misrach catalogue in artnet's "Artist Works Catalogues"]
* [http://www.shpcontemporary.com/misrach Richard Misrach photographs at SHPcontemporary fine art]
* [http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/misrach_richard.php Richard Misrach Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography]
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