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
1998.91.15
Art Historical Context
Richard Misrach's *San Jacinto Mountains Sequence (1985, printed 1996) captures the stark beauty of California's San Jacinto Mountains in a chromogenic print, a photographic process that yields vibrant, enduring hues through dye couplers embedded in gelatin-silver paper. This intimate-scale image—measuring about 8½ by 10¾ inches—exemplifies Misrach's mastery of large-format view cameras, though printed modestly here, inviting close contemplation of the desert landscape's subtle textures and vastness. As a leading figure in contemporary American photography, Misrach is renowned for his "Desert...
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 ...