He was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of large-scale color prints and one of the first to focus his politicized art on modern society’s irresponsible behavior toward our natural environment.
The Major American photographer Richard Misrach is known for provocative work that addresses contemporary society's troubled relationship to nature, especially in the American West. His works are represented in more than fifty major museum collections around the world. Misrach is best known for his ongoing series, Desert Cantos, which he has worked on for over 35 years in which he studies the landscape and man’s complex relationship to it.
His photo "Pyramid Lake (at Night)" was recently featured as the wallpaper on the Apple iPad.
Richard Misrach: Pyramid Lake (at night), 2004 (© Richard Misrach Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery San Fransisco and Marc Salwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
His Photographs radiate so much harmony and beauty, he succeds in capturing very meaningful colours. On the other hand they make u think about the message Misrach wants to provide through his pictures. His critical view of our society and the environment is very impressive. He wants to show all the damage that people caused to the nature, but does that in a subliminal way because at first sight the pictures seem to be beautiful and the locations taken on those particular photographs untouched by human beings.
"I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas," he said.
He was inspired by the political activism of his student days in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as by the work of landscape photographers of the West, especially Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. He is committed to the preservation of landscapes and his work also reveals his engagement with contemporary social, political, and cultural issues.
It's impressive how he manages to find all the locations in the middle of deserts all over the States. They show a history of people who used to live at these places but have left a long time ago. These Photographs are meant to remind people of those forgotten places.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Misrach
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http://pics.livejournal.com/enthusemarc/pic/000x39a9
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26514/richard-misrach/
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