Richard Misrach
Photographer, Visual Artist
1949 –
Who is Richard Misrach?
Richard Misrach is an American photographer "firmly identified with the introduction of color to 'fine' [art] photography in the 1970s, and with the use of large-format traditional cameras".
David Littlejohn of the Wall Street Journal calls Misrach "the most interesting and original American photographer of his generation," describing his work as running "parallel to that of Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, two German contemporaries." Littlejohn notes that all three used a large scale color format that defied the expectations of fine art photography at the time.
Misrach is widely recognized as "one of this century’s most internationally acclaimed photographers." He is perhaps best known for his depictions of the deserts of the American west, and for his series documenting the changes brought to bear on the environment 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. Curator Anne Wilkes Tucker writes that Misrach's practice has been "driven [by] issues of aesthetics, politics, ecology, and sociology."
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- Born
- Dec 1, 1949
Los Angeles - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Psychology
( - 1971)
- Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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