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
1998.91.21
Art Historical Context
Richard Misrach's *San Jacinto Mountains Sequence* (1985, printed 6) captures the rugged beauty of California's San Jacinto Mountains in a series of chromogenic prints, a color photographic process prized for its vivid, stable hues and rich tonal range. Made from a color negative exposed in a camera, this medium allowed Misrach to render landscapes with striking clarity and depth, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in nature's grandeur. The modest dimensions—image at 21.7 × 27.5 cm—belie the intimate scale of the work, now housed in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Contemporary ...
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 ...