Desert Croquet #1 (Deflated Earth), Black Rock Desert, Nevada
1987, printed 1995
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 96.6 x 122 cm (38 1/16 x 48 1/16 in.) sheet: 122 x 126.2 cm (48 1/16 x 49 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
1998.76.3
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 ...