I’ve been a fan of Richard Misrach’s work for as long as I can remember. He is celebrated for pioneering color photography as fine art, and remains one of its most innovative practitioners. I love the fearless, expressive use of color in his landscapes – an almost surreal vision of the natural world. His work is passionate but never sentimental, and always mesmerizing:
Battleground Point #19 (1999)
Clearing Storm Near Kingman (1985)
Untitled, 2008
from Golden Gate (2012)
Mono Lake, CA (1999)
Untitled (2007)
Pyramid Lake #5 (1988)
Battleground Point #3 (1999)
Monolake 2, California (1999)
Untitled, 2009
Pyramid Lake (orange) (1997)
Cloud, Walker Lake (1994)
“Part of what I find so compelling about photography is the mystery of it. After forty years I would expect myself to be jaded, bored – but not at all. The magic of the ways photography works and what it does, remains elusive. Photography still challenges my visual and intellectual needs in a way no other medium can.” – Richard Misrach, 2011 (Spot)
Bonneville Salt Flats (red), 1999
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