
Untitled (July 20, 2013 2:02pm)
2013
Captured on a summer afternoon in 2013 and printed in 2017, this large-scale pigment print draws the eye into the quiet intensity that has defined Richard Misrach's decades-long meditation on the American landscape. At 60 by 80 inches, the work commands physical presence, transforming whatever wall it occupies into a threshold between the viewer's immediate surroundings and the vast, light-saturated environments Misrach has spent his career documenting. The precise timestamp embedded in the title is characteristic of his practice, grounding an image of enormous atmospheric breadth in a single, irreducible moment. It is a gesture that insists on both the singularity of perception and the passage of time. Misrach is among the most critically celebrated photographers of his generation, with work held in major museum collections across the United States and Europe. His photographs resist easy categorization, functioning simultaneously as records of place, studies in color and light, and sustained engagements with ecological and political questions. This print, produced four years after the original capture, reflects the careful consideration he brings to the relationship between image-making and object-making. Printed on archival materials and signed by the artist, the work represents an opportunity to acquire a substantial example from a body of practice that continues to shape conversations around landscape photography and the American West. The piece is being offered through the Aperture Foundation Benefit Auction, connecting its acquisition to an institution with deep ties to the photographic arts.
- Medium
- Pigment print (2017)
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
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