Henry Art Gallery

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Richard Misrach: On the Beach on view at the Henry

October 11, 2008—January 18, 2009

Richard Misrach, renowned color photographer of the desert, has turned his eye and his camera to water. In the past five years, Misrach has been working on a series of pictures of beaches, the ocean, sunbathers, and swimmers, shot from above. Dramatically scaled, with some being as large as 6 x 10 feet, the photographs envelop the viewer with a strangely disorienting view. The viewer is confronted with details of the people in the pictures, but is also made to contemplate the inconsequential place of humankind on the vast landscape of the earth's beaches and waters. Stirred by the events of September 11, 2001, Misrach's title On the Beach references Nevil Shute's Cold War novel about nuclear holocaust.

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