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Richard Misrach was born in 1949 in Los Angeles, California.
Collection of photographs richard misrach biography
A leading photographer of his generation, Misrach explores the collision of nature and culture through his large-format color photographs. Fascinated by the political and environmental transformation of the deserts of the American southwest, Misrach creates hauntingly beautiful photographs of arid landscapes that contrast the natural and man-made tragedies found there: floods, fires, nuclear-test sites, the U.S.-Mexico border wall, and the traces of migrants who make the perilous journey north.
Misrach began his career in Berkeley, California, in the early 1970s, photographing the anti-war protests happening throughout the city.
His first major series of photographs, Telegraph 3 AM (1974), depicted the homeless population of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Misrach realized that the work failed to meet his social-activist ambitions and instead turned his camera to the deserts of southern California, Nevada, and A