I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction. — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird. — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ...… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling. — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas. — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
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.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
