Shows public lands illegally used to test bombs

Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West (Creating the North American Landscape)

Misrach, Richard

Arts & Photography

Johns Hopkins University Press

SIGNED. Richard Misrach: Desert Cantos. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. 1987. First edition, first printing. 4to oblong. 108pp. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers.The catalogue for a 1987 traveling exhibition organized by the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA and which went to The Palm Springs Desert Museum from January 9 - March 6, 1987; the Oakland Museum from April 25 - July 19, 1987; the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 24, 1987 - January 3, 1988; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from February 20 - April 20, 1988; the Cleveland Museum of Art from May - August 1988. 6-page essay by Reyner Banham. 58 color plates + 1 map. Biography, exhibition history, bibliography, and collections. Signed Richard Misrach on title page below the title, no inscription. Book Condition: Spine end sunned and faded as it typical for this item, otherwise Like New.

Desert cantos

University of New Mexico Press

This collection of photographs form part of Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos series. They feature the beauty, mystery and abuse of the American desert with images as diverse as secret nuclear test sites, space shuttle landings, arts happenings and natural disasters.

Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach

Solnit, Rebecca

Tucker, Anne Wilkes

Museum of Fine Arts. Houston

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

In Violent Legacies the acclaimed photographer Richard Misrach has compiled three new "cantos" in his ongoing series of photographs exploring the desert in the American West.The desert has long been a metaphor in Misrach's art. In Violent Legacies these barren lands, so often romanticized, undergo an eerie transformation at the hands of man and become an unmistakable reflection of militarism, violence, and environmental destruction. Misrach's political commitment and activism-- filtered through an ironic counterposing of form and content, as well as his exquisite use of color and composition-- have never been as powerfully articulated as in these three new cantos.In "Project W-47 (The Secret)" Misrach reveals classically inspired vistas of the Utah deadlands, tainted forever by their past incarnation as Wendover Air Base-- the secret training and planning site for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Aspects of what took place at Wendover still remain classified by the U.S. government."The Pit" is a Goyaesque series that focuses on the mysterious death of livestock in very close proximity to a former nuclear test site in the Nevada desert. These photographs are a chilling reminder of U.S. and global nuclear contamination."The Playboys" are Misrach's studies of Playboy magazines that were used for target practice by persons unknown on the fringes of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. While cover girls appear to have been the principal targets, many aspects of American culture-- including icons like Andy Warhol, Ray Charles, and Madonna-- were inadvertently blasted.Susan Sontag uses these cantos as a springboard to an allegorical tale-- "The View from the Ark"-- a subtle, yet probing meditation on violence in contemporary society. A postscript interview with Richard Misrach provides background information about the sites comprising Violent Legacies."The West," says Misrach, "is such a loaded concept that any representation deviating from the cowboy myth automatically becomes confrontational. Today, a more fitting myth is that of Dr. Frankenstein. Since World War II, the American landscape has been converted into a n0 laboratory where scientists and the military experiment with the most elemental powers of the universe, inventing weapons of mass destruction, and leaving a legacy of violence in their wake."Violent Legacies sends a stark and compelling message about the land we inhabit and our embattled relationship to it. Though the sites depicted here are all in the American West, they symbolize conditions to be found across the globe and in our own backyards. Richard Misrach unveils a landscape of terrible beauty and great metaphorical power. He asks us to confront the violence in human nature, the skeletons in our closet, the radiant glow on the horizon.

Violent Legacies: Three Cantos

Photography & Video

Aperture

54 full-page black and white photographs . 4to pp. 110 Brossura (wrappers) Ottimo (Fine) Dopo aver sperato che "Telegraph 3AM" (fotolibro dedicato ai senzatetto di Telegraph Avenue in California) avrebbe contribuito a migliorare le condizioni di vita nelle strade Misrach, frustrato dal minimo impatto che il libro ebbe, si ritirò nei deserti della California meridionale e dell'Arizona, dove scattò fotografie completamente prive di figure umane. Lavorava di notte con uno stroboscopio che illuminava il paesaggio intorno, sperimentando inusuali tecniche di stampa nella camera oscura dell'università. Da questa esperienza derivò nel 1979 questo fotolibro, pubblicato senza un titolo o una parola di testo. Le uniche informazioni si trovano sul dorso del libro.

Richard Misrach

Individual Artists

Grapestake Gallery

Business & Money

SONTAG, SUSAN

Economics

Cornerhouse Publications

What do paintings signify in an age of photographs? How do photographs modify the visual language of paintings? Richard Misrach's Pictures of Paintings showcases photographs of select museum masterpieces. Working primarily in the art museums of the American West, along with The Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Misrach photographs paintings to reexamine specific details, not so much as a guide to the artist’s style or technique, but as a means of understanding a lexicon of cultural values, among them race, gender, religion, and power.  By collapsing the barriers between the traditional practice of documentation and the recent strategies of appropriation art, these photographs raise important questions regarding representation itself. This publication marks the first comprehensive compilation of this significant body of work. Blind Spot Books, a division of Blind Spot Inc. (publisher of the premiere art photography magazine Blind Spot), is now partnering with powerHouse Books to produce elegantly designed, sumptuously produced works of artistic and literary significance. Founding Blind Spot editor and publisher Kim Zorn Caputo will use the same uncompromising production standards and the finest printing available for the series. Each book will be treated as a creative medium that celebrates the integrity of the best in art and literature.

Pictures Of Paintings

Naef, Weston

Kumar, Navjotika

Painting

powerHouse Books

Pictures of Paintings (Blindspot Book)

Power House Books

Since the publication of Richard Misrach's bestselling and critically acclaimed publication On the Beach, he has continued to photograph at the same location, building a body of work that has been exhibited as On the Beach 2.0—a reference to the technological and optical developments that have made the intensely detailed, exquisitely rendered depictions possible. The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings focuses less on the abstraction of water, sand and mote-sized figures, instead honing in on the gestures and expressions of bathers adrift in the ocean. Misrach has rarely ventured into portraiture; this work is his first to focus exclusively on the human figure. Each photograph features one or more individuals crisply rendered from a distance, as they seem to levitate among turquoise waves, isolated from everything save the shifting patterns of the ocean. There is ambiguity and a sense of the uncanny in the figures suspended in the water: are they approaching the shore or moving away from it? Each image is presented both as full frame and as a series of enlarged details that enable the viewer to linger on each individual's surrender of their body to the sea.

Richard Misrach: The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings

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