Richard Misrach was born on 1949 and is an American photographer.
16 Facts About Richard Misrach
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Richard Misrach has photographed the deserts of the American West, and pursued projects that document the changes in the natural environment that have been wrought by various man-made factors such as urban sprawl, tourism, industrialization, floods, fires, petrochemical manufacturing, and the testing of explosives and nuclear weapons by the military.
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Badger suggests that Richard Misrach's Cantos have an antecedent in the work of Depression-era documentary photographer Lewis Hine, writing that with the Cantos, Richard Misrach.
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Richard Misrach must be judged on the Desert Cantos as a totality, the sum rather than the individual parts.
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When Richard Misrach moved to a house in the Berkeley hills in 1997, he was inspired by the spectacle of weather and light surrounding the Golden Gate Bridge, which sat only seven miles from his front porch.
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Concurrently, Richard Misrach was working in Louisiana, following a commission he received from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
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Richard Misrach resumed photographing the area in 2010 and completed the series in 2012 with another exhibition at the High Museum, "Revisiting the South," and the publication of Petrochemical America, a book pairing Misrach's images with an "ecological atlas" by architect and Columbia University professor Kate Orff.
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In January 2002, following an exploratory trip in November 2001, Richard Misrach started his On the Beach project, consisting of serial photographs taken from the same building overlooking a beach in Hawaii.
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Richard Misrach completed the series in 2005 and went on to publish a large-format book called On the Beach in 2007, voted by Photo District News readers as one of the most influential books of the decade.
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Conversely, reviewer Allegra Kirkland points out that parts of this body of work are the closest Richard Misrach has come to traditional portraiture since Telegraph 3 AM.
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Ten years after the debut of the original project, Richard Misrach seems to be affirming that man and nature do not always have to exist in opposition.
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In 2019, Richard Misrach was commissioned to produce all the art for a new UCSF psychiatry building in San Francisco.
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Richard Misrach has received four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an International Center of Photography Infinity Award for a Publication, and the Distinguished Career in Photography Award from the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.
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Richard Misrach has been married since 1989 to writer Myriam Weisang and has a son, Jake, from his first marriage to Debra Bloomfield.
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Richard Misrach was part of the Mirrors and Windows exhibit, at the Museum of Modern Art in 1978.
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Richard Misrach has been part of two Whitney Biennials, in 1981 and again in 1991.