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RICHARD MISRACH
The Sky Book
 Phoenix 10.26.94 6:20 pm |
"There’s a
series of skies where I’ll pick a place on a map, like a Rand McNally map, and
go to that place and photograph the sky. What’s in the photograph is not
clouds, there’s no horizon line. There’s nothing in there. It’s really
atmosphere, light. My idea was that the photographs become a Rorschachs. What
gives it its conceptual meaning is the name of the place. Each of the places is
keyed by where I took it."
Richard Misrach |
| "Not
since Alfred Stieglitz photographed clouds in the 1920s has a
photographer made so much of the earth's atmosphere and precious little
else .... the results are as emotionally evocative as Stieglitz wanted
his cloud "Equivalents" to be, and as purified of quotidian
reality as any painting by Mark Rothko or Robert Motherwell.
NYT Book Review |
clouds (cirrocumulus ondulatus) fool's pond 6.30.96 11:41 - 11:56 pm |
Moon over Black Rock desert 8.26.96 9:22 - 10:24 pm |
Skies
wider than imagination and colors that defy man's memories: Misrach's
images are broadening the perception of the sky and giving it an
identity. It's the methaphor of a travel toward the quiet meditation,
the impulse to fall in a Real photo.
M.M. |
all images © Copyright 2000 Arena Editions, from Richard Misrach: The Sky Book
The Sky Book has images by Richard Misrach and text by Rebecca Solnit; it's published by Arena Editions.
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