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
1998.91.18
Art Historical Context
Richard Misrach's *San Jacinto Mountains Sequence*1985, printed 6) invites visitors into the rugged beauty of California's San Jacinto Mountains through aogenic print, a vibrant color photographic process that captures subtle atmospheric hues and expansive vistas with remarkable fidelity. Measuring about 22 x 28 cm, this intimate yet evocative image is part of the National Gallery of's photography collection, gifted anonymously to the CPH department. Mis, a leading figure in contemporary American photography since the 1970s, is renowned for his large-scale, color-saturated landscapes that ble...
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 ...