San Jacinto Mountains Sequence
1985, printed 1996
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 21.7 × 27.5 cm (8 9/16 × 10 13/16 in.) sheet/mount: 27.62 × 35.24 cm (10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Anonymous Gift
Accession Number
1998.91.17
Art Historical Context
Richard Misrach's *San Jacinto Mountains Sequence* (1985, printed 1996) captures the rugged beauty of California's San Jacinto Mountains in a chromogenic print, a color photographic process prized for its vibrant, long-lasting hues. This intimate work, with an image size of just 21.7 × 27.5 cm, invites close contemplation of the landscape's layered textures and shifting light, typical of Misrach's meticulous documentation of the American West. a leading figure in contemporary color photography, Misrach often explores humanity's complex relationship with nature, blending awe-inspiring vistas ...
About the Artist
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach, born in 1949 in Los Angeles, California, emerged as one of the most influential American photographers of his generation through his pioneering use of large-format color photography to explore the fraught intersections of nature, culture, and human intervention. Raised in a middle-class family, he briefly studied mathematics before earning a B.A. in Psychology from the University ...