Richard Misrach Lecture at CCA, Tuesday Sept. 21 11AM

This is a golden opportunity to hear one of the Bay Area's premier photographers talk about his work.  This is only open to CCA students and staff so it will be a small group and it is a great chance to see some great work with peers.  The lecture will be in Ralls 202.  Hope to see you there.

Richard Misrach, born in 1949 in Los Angeles, is one of the most influential and prolific artists of his generation. In the 1970’s, he helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are widespread practice today. Best known for his ongoing epic series, Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and man’s complex relationship to it, he has worked in the landscape for over 40 years. Other notable bodies of work include his documentation of the industrial corridor along the Mississippi River known as Cancer Alley, the rigorous study of weather and time in his serial photographs of the Golden Gate, and On the Beach, an aerial perspective of human interaction and isolation. Recent projects mark departures from his work to date. In one, experimenting with the latest digital technologies, Misrach has deftly switched positive and negative along the color spectrum to create images made without film.  In another project, “Destroy this Memory” (Aperture, 2010), he builds a narrative out of images of graffiti created during Hurricane Katrina, made with a 4-megapixel pocket camera.