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Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, California in 1949) is an American photographer "firmly identified with the introduction of color to 'fine' () photography in the 1970s, and with the use of large-format traditional cameras" (Nancy Princenthal, ''Art in America'').〔Princenthal, Nancy. ("Richard Misrach," ) ''Art in America'', April 26, 2010.〕〔Littlejohn, David. ("Richard Misrach | The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath: Following the Flames." ) The ''Wall Street Journal'', December 20, 2011.〕 David Littlejohn of the Wall Street Journal calls Misrach "the most interesting and original American photographer of his generation," describing his work as running "parallel to that of Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, two German contemporaries." Littlejohn notes that all three used a large scale color format that defied the expectations of fine art photography at the time.〔 Misrach is widely recognized as "one of this century’s most internationally acclaimed photographers."〔Brown, Peter.(Interview with Richard Misrach. ) Spot magazine, 2011.〕〔Tucker, Anne Wilkes & Rebecca Solnit. ''Crimes and Splendors: the Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach''. Bulfinch / Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8212-2254-6〕 He is perhaps best known for his depictions of the deserts of the American west, and for his series documenting the changes brought to bear on the environment by various man-made factors such as urban sprawl, tourism, industrialization, floods, fires, petrochemical manufacturing, and the testing of explosives and nuclear weapons by the military.〔 Curator Anne Wilkes Tucker writes that Misrach's practice has been "driven () issues of aesthetics, politics, ecology, and sociology."〔 In a 2011 interview, Misrach noted: "My career, in a way, has been about navigating these two extremes - the political and the aesthetic."〔 Describing his philosophy, Tracey Taylor of the ''New York Times'' writes that "() images are for the historical record, not reportage."〔Taylor, Tracey. ("Richard Misrach Reveals His Images of Oakland-Berkeley Fire," ) the'' New York Times''. October 21, 2011.〕 Misrach has been married since 1989 to writer Myriam Weisang and has a son, Jake, from his first marriage to Debra Bloomfield.〔 ==Background and education== In 1967, Misrach left Los Angeles for the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained a B.A. in Psychology after briefly pursuing a degree in Mathematics. While on campus he was confronted with the anti-war riots and began photographing the events around him;〔Elder, Sean. "(The Tainted Desert: Richard Misrach's Photographs Document the Beauty and Ruin of the American West )," ''Los Angeles Times'', November 4, 1990.〕 he also learned the rudiments of photography with Paul Herzoff, Roger Minick, and Steve Fitch at the ASUC Berkeley Studio.〔 Misrach's first major photography project, completed in 1974, depicted homeless residents of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. This suite of photographs was shown at the International Center of Photography and published as a book, ''Telegraph 3 AM,''〔Caponigro, John Paul. ("Richard Misrach" (interview) ) in ''View Camera'' magazine, September/October 1998 issue.〕 which won a Western Book Award in 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Misrach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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