birth_place nationality field birth_date article_title name
united states american photography 11 july 1949 richard misrach
 richard misrach
richard misrach

richard misrach -lrb- born in los angeles , california in 1949 -rrb- is an american photographer `` firmly identified with the introduction of color to ` fine ' photography in the 1970s , and with the use of large-format traditional cameras '' -lrb- nancy princenthal , `` art in america '' -rrb- .
david littlejohn of the wall street journal calls misrach `` the most interesting and original american photographer of his generation , '' describing his work as running `` parallel to that of thomas struth and andreas gursky , two german contemporaries . ''
littlejohn notes that all three used a large scale color format that defied the expectations of fine art photography at the time .
misrach is widely recognized as `` one of this century 's most internationally acclaimed photographers . ''
he is perhaps best known for his depictions of the deserts of the american west , and for his series documenting the changes brought to bear on the environment by various man-made factors such as urban sprawl , tourism , industrialization , floods , fires , petrochemical manufacturing , and the testing of explosives and nuclear weapons by the military .
curator anne wilkes tucker writes that misrach 's practice has been `` driven issues of aesthetics , politics , ecology , and sociology . ''
in a 2011 interview , misrach noted : `` my career , in a way , has been about navigating these two extremes - the political and the aesthetic . ''
describing his philosophy , tracey taylor of the `` new york times '' writes that '' -lsb- misrach 's images are for the historical record , not reportage . ''
misrach has been married since 1989 to writer myriam weisang and has a son , jake , from his first marriage to debra bloomfield .
he is represented by the fraenkel gallery in san francisco , pace/macgill in new york , and marc selwyn fine art in los angeles .
