RICHARD MISRACH – DESERT CANTOS
2012-08-20Spanning the first 25 years of Misrach’s career, the exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to track the artistic development of one of the most significant living American photographers. The chronology of the exhibition begins with the luscious split-toned works realized with a flash shot into desert night scenes. Eerie and magnificent, these works introduce many of the themes that would occupy Misrach in the years to come: staging the condition of aesthetic beauty of the natural world as mediated by human intervention in the landscape – in this case the photographer’s own invasive flash. The sublime nature of the damage wrought on the landscape by man-made disasters forms the central theme of his Desert Cantos series.These concerns can be further traced through the Playboy series, Battleground Point, and the dramatic views from Misrach’s porch tracking meteorological conditions around San Francisco Bay’s Golden Gate.
These related bodies of work secured Misrach’s place as the preeminent American photographer of his generation investigating issues surrounding landscape.
Exhibition runs from September 13th to October 27th, 2012
Robert Mann Gallery
210 11th Ave
Between 24th & 25th Streets
Floor 10
New York
NY
10001
