Richard Misrach1979

Photographs: Richard Miscrach

Publisher: Grapestake Gallery

58 pages

Pictures: 54

Year: 1979

Price: € 120

"A mysterious, somber and surreal collection of photographs depicting the desert landscape at night. Richard Misrach captured these images with an intense flash of light that startles the scenery. "Thus it is a book about the camera revealing what the eye cannot see...a strange beauty, almost of a forensic nature, with cacti and details of the desert floor being highlighted unnaturally by the strobe. Misrach highlighted this artificiality by heavily toning his prints with split-tone selenium, a tonality picked up well in the printing of the book. It adds a feeling of menace to the undoubted beauty..."

Parr & Badger The Photobook : A History

Softcover, 310 x 250 mm. First edition, 1979. Black & white photographs. Cover in good condition, little soiling especially at the spine and creases. A sticker is on the cover. Inside in very good condition. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol. 2, p.32.