A Note on the Artworks
Over the course of his five-decades-long career, Richard Misrach has made visible the tension between his photography’s documentary ethos and his commitment to exposing the medium’s strategies. The images, in a sense, portraits, though their subjects include stone monuments and desert plants—make us uncannily aware of how we are looking at the faces of human life and environments, even as they also elucidate real suffering and resilience.
