Barren Quote 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…

— Richard Misrach

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

— Richard Misrach

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

— Richard Misrach

The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ...…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Richard Misrach

I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Misrach