Crimes and splendors
Subtitle: the desert cantos of Richard Misrach
By: Anne Wilkes Tucker with an essay by Rebecca Solnit.
Contributors: Misrach, Richard.; Solnit, Rebecca.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bulfinch Press/Little Brown and Co
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Misrach, Richard -- Exhibitions.; Landscape photography -- Southwest, New -- Exhibitions.; Deserts -- Southwest, New -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
Description: The beauty, mystery, and abuse of the American desert are topics explored by Richard Misrach in his breathtaking Desert Cantos series, one of the most ambitious and innovative photographic projects of our time. Evolving over the course of two decades, the series now comprises eighteen numbered and named subseries, or cantos, and a prologue.

With subjects as diverse as a military base in Utah, a man-made flood in California, sublime skies in Arizona, and arts happenings in Nevada, Richard Misrach's images raise probing and compelling questions about contemporary society's relationship to the desert. Included in this beautifully illustrated book are more than sixty Desert Cantos photographs that have never before been published, as well as some of the artist's best-known and most-admired images.

. This monumental publication, the first comprehensive survey of Richard Misrach's epic work-in-progress, serves as an exhibition catalogue for a major midcareer retrospective organized by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The show will tour in the United States (venues include Tucson, Tacoma, and Chicago).
Notes: "In association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston."

Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition beginning at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas June 2-August 25, 1996 ... (et al.).

Includes bibliographical references.