Richard Misrach featured on Apple’s iPad

The work of internationally acclaimed photographer, Richard Misrach, is shown regularly at Stremmel Gallery. Photographs from his esteemed Golden Gate series are continuously on view.

 

Richard Misrach was born in Los Angeles California in 1949 and became a crucial voice in the reemergence of color photography and the large-scale format during the 1970s. In 1997 he and his family moved to the Berkeley hills in Northern California where he began compulsively photographing the majestic view of the Golden Gate Bridge from the front porch of their home. Eight-five photographs were produced from the series consisting of over seven hundred, all taken from the exact same vantage point at different times of day. Each capture the opening between bay and ocean, the famous bridge, in every light and weather condition This body of work, like color field paintings, transcends the ordinary and offers commentary on the politics of viewing – the relationships of wealth, power, and privilege at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The photographs represent an “unabashed celebration of the glorious light that is the Golden Gate”, a cultural and political landmark that reveals something deeper under a penetrating gaze.

 

 

Misrach’s photographs are held in the collections of over fifty major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 1996, a mid-career survey was organized by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Among his monographs published to date are Desert Cantos; Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West; Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach; The Sky Book; Richard Misrach: Golden Gate, Chronologies, and On the Beach. He is the recipient of numerous awards including four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2002 he was given the Kulturpreis for Lifetime Achievement in Photography by the German Society for Photography, and in 2008 the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art Photography. Most recently, his photo “Pyramid Lake (at Night)” was featured as the wallpaper on the Apple iPad. Misrach’s work continues to emphasize humanities need to maintain constant vigilance in order to protect the planet from the shortcomings of man, as well as the importance of embracing the world as it exists.

 

 

The work of Richard Misrach will be on view regularly. Stremmel Gallery is located at 1400 S. Virginia Street. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, and Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm. For more information, contact Stremmel Gallery at 786-0558.