Dead Animals #327, Nevada
1987, printed 1998
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chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 97 x 122 cm (38 3/16 x 48 1/16 in.) sheet: 101.2 x 126.6 cm (39 13/16 x 49 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
1998.76.6
Art Historical Context
Richard Misrach's *Dead Animals #327,* (1987, printed 1998) is a striking chromogenic print from his monumental *Desert Cantos* series, which chronicles the American Southwest's haunting beauty and hidden scars. Captured in Nevada's vast desert expanse, the image confronts viewers with the stark reality of animal carcasses scattered amid arid sands, a poignant symbol of life's fragility in altered landscapes. Misrach, a leading figure in contemporary color photography since the 1970s, transformed the medium from mere documentation into immersive environmental storytelling, blending lyricism wi...
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 ...