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
1998.91.24
Art Historical Context
Richard Misrach's *San Jacinto Mountains* (1985, printed 6) captures the stark beauty of California's San Jacinto Mountains, a range in the Sonoran Desert near Palm Springs. This chromogenic print, a vibrant color photograph developed from a negative using dye-coupling processes, exemplifies Misrach's mastery of large-format photography. Measuring 21.7 × 27.5 cm, it invites viewers into an intimate yet expansive vista, where layered ridges and atmospheric haze evoke the timeless allure of the American West. As a key figure in contemporary landscape photography, Misrach belongs to the "New Top...
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 ...