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> [I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/i-m-not-interested-into-victim-photography-photographing-people/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

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## More by Richard Misrach

> [The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/the-one-thing-that-seems-to-be-consistent-through-all-my-work-that-i/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/whatever-else-a-photograph-may-be-about-it-is-always-about-time/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/people-have-responded-to-the-pictures-i-make-as-mystical-things-and/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/i-m-not-interested-into-victim-photography-photographing-people/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/the-desert-may-serve-better-as-the-backdrop-for-the-problematic/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/the-very-act-of-representation-has-been-so-thoroughly-challenged-in/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/i-am-not-unaware-that-i-have-the-mindset-as-contradictory-as-it-may/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/our-experience-with-knowledge-the-way-we-know-things-is-not-that-neat/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/in-spite-of-recent-trends-towards-fabricating-photographic-narratives/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/i-ve-come-to-believe-that-beauty-can-be-a-very-powerful-conveyor-of/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/one-of-the-things-that-was-really-influential-early-on-was-ezra-pound/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/despite-the-limitations-and-problems-inherent-to-photographic/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/to-me-the-work-i-do-is-a-means-of-interpreting-unsettling-truths-of/)

[Richard Misrach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-misrach/)

> [I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-misrach/i-think-this-is-the-most-exciting-time-in-the-history-of-photography/)

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