Richard Misrach
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Richard Misrach, Poet of the American Wilderness
In the fall of 2023, the Getty Center in Los Angeles mounted a landmark survey of landscape photography in the American West, and Richard Misrach's prints commanded the room with the quiet authority of someone who has spent five decades learning how light behaves over alkali flats at four in the morning. His large format chromogenic prints, some stretching to monumental scale, reminded a new generation of collectors and curators why Misrach remains one of the most consequential photographers working in the United States today. His presence in such institutional contexts is no longer a matter… Continue reading
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Artists in conversation
Edward Burtynsky
Burtynsky similarly produces large format color photographs documenting industrial and environmental transformation of landscapes, sharing Misrach's concern for human impact on the natural world.
Joel Sternfeld
Sternfeld works in large format color photography exploring the American landscape and its social contradictions, paralleling Misrach's sustained critical examination of place and environmental meaning.
Andreas Gursky
Gursky creates monumental color photographs that frame landscapes and human environments with a detached analytical perspective, echoing Misrach's use of scale and formal composition to convey environmental and cultural critique.
Artists who inspired them
Edward Weston
Weston's deeply formalist approach to photographing the American Southwest and its desert terrain provided an early foundational model for Misrach's own engagement with that landscape.
Ansel Adams
Adams established the tradition of large format landscape photography in the American West that Misrach directly inherits and then critically revises by introducing environmental and political dimensions.
Stephen Shore
Shore pioneered the use of large format color photography to document the American vernacular landscape, helping legitimize the approach and aesthetic sensibility central to Misrach's Desert Cantos project.