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With frame measures 13.5″ by 10.5″, portrait measures 9″ by 7″, frame is as is condition.

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Richard Misrach American, b. Vintage Ektacolor print, printed 1979. From an unmarked edition of 100 (15/100). Signed & dated in pen in margin. Image size: 10 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Print size: 11 x 14 inches. Mat size: 16 x 20 inches. Condition: Excellent, slight discoloration on right edge, not affecting the image. Richard Misrach (born 1949) is an American photographer. Nancy Princenthal has said that he is “firmly identified with the introduction of color to’fine’ [art] photography in the 1970s, and with the use of large-format traditional cameras”. 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. He has photographed the deserts of the American west, and made a 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 [by] 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 “[Misrach’s] images are for the historical record, not reportage. The Street People of Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, Cornucopia Press, Berkeley, CA, 1974. (untitled photographic book), Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1979. Desert Cantos, University of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1987 (first and second editions). Desert Cantos (Japanese edition), Treville Corporation Ltd. Desert Cantos, University of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1988 (third edition). Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West (with Myriam Weisang Misrach), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1990. Violent Legacies: Three Cantos (with fiction by Susan Sontag), Aperture, New York City, 1992. Violent Legacies: Three Cantos (with fiction by Susan Sontag), Aperture, New York City, 1994 (softcover edition). Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 1996. Cantos del Desierto, Diputacion de Granada, Granada, Spain, 1999. The Sky Book, Arena Editions, Santa Fe, NM, 2000. Richard Misrach: Golden Gate, Arena Editions, Santa Fe, NM, 2001. Pictures of Paintings, Blind Spot/Powerhouse Books, 2002. Richard Misrach: Chronologies, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005. Richard Misrach: Golden Gate, Aperture, New York City, 2005 (second edition). Richard Misrach: On The Beach, Aperture, New York City, 2007. Destroy This Memory, Aperture, New York City, 2010. 1991, Blind Spot/Powerhouse Books, 2011. Petrochemical America (with Kate Orff), Aperture, New York City, 2012. Richard Misrach: Golden Gate, Aperture, New York City, 2013 (third edition). 11.21.11 5:40pm, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2013. IPhone Studies: Reverse Scrubs, Nazraeli Press One Picture Book No. 82, Portland, OR, 2013. Misrach, Nazraeli Press (Six by Six), Portland, OR, 2014. Petrochemical America (with Kate Orff), Aperture, New York City, 2014 (paperback edition). Assignment No 2 (Michael Nelson with Richard Misrach and Hiroshi Sugimoto), TBW Books, Oakland, CA, 2014. The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings, Aperture, New York City, 2015. Photographers’ References: Richard Misrach, Photographers’ References, Paris, France, 2016. Border Cantos by Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo; with an introduction and texts by Josh Kun. Aperture, New York City, 2016. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 17 prints. Metropolitan Museum of Art: 7 prints. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: 149 prints. Museum of Modern Art, New York: 31 prints. National Gallery of Art: 130 prints. Art Institute of Chicago: 30 prints. Whitney Museum of American Art: 18 prints. Christie’s, Sale 2368, Photographs, 13 December 2010, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 23. 1949? White Man Contemplating Pyramids, 1989? Chromogenic print, printed 1991? Signed, titled, dated and numbered’16/25′ in ink (in the margin)? 18 3/8 x 23 1/8in. 46.5 x 58.7cm. Christie’s Sale 2205, The American Landscape: Color Photographs from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman, 7 October 2009, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 37, RICHARD MISRACH B. 1949? The Santa Fe, 1982? Chromogenic print, printed 1995? Signed, titled, dated and numbered’9/10′ in ink (in the margin)? 38 x 47½in. 96.5 x 120.7cm. Christie’s Sale 2205, The American Landscape: Color Photographs from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman, 7 October 2009, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 38, RICHARD MISRACH B. 1949? Drive-In Theatre, Las Vegas, 1987, from American History Lessons? Chromogenic print, printed 2005? Signed, titled, dated and numbered’16/25′ in ink (in the margin)? 18¼ x 23¼in. 46.4 x 59.1cm. Christie’s, Sale 2125, Contemporary Photographs, 13 October 2008, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 44. 1949? Diving Board, Salton Sea, 1983? Chromogenic print, printed 1984? Signed, titled, dated and numbered’26/50′ in ink (in the margin)? 18¼ x 22 7/8in. 46.4 x 58.2cm. Sotheby’s, NY, Oct 5, 2011 N08775, Lot 183. STRANDED ROWBOAT, SALTON SEA. Oversized chromogenic print, signed, titled, dated, copyrighted, and editioned’6/10′ in ink in the margin, mounted, framed, 1983, printed in 1994 (Chronologies, unpaginated). 28 by 34 3/8 in. Sotheby’s, NY, April 6, 2011 N08730, Lot 121. 14¼ by 14¼ in.

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Richard Blair Photograph “Daily News – Chinatown” San Francisco c. Fine black and white photograph by noted American photographer Richard Blair. Richard Blair has been in a photographic frenzy for most of his adult life. Born in New York City in 1948, he has been a professional photographer since 1967 when he moved to California. This photograph shows a Chinese man reading the headlines of a paper in the window of the Daily News in Chinatown located at 117 Waverly Place in San Francisco’s Chinatown. In 1924 Walter U. Lum founded the Chinese Times newspaper, written in Chinese, and referred by some as the first Chinese language newspaper in the United States. By 1929, Chinese Times had the highest circulation among the Chinese newspapers in San Francisco. For thirty-five years, Lum served as the editor, managing editor, vice president, and president of the Chinese Times Publishing Company. This is a rare 1970s photograph of by a very talented American photographer. Signed by the photographer. Dimensions 6.5″ x 13″. The frame measures 16.5″ x 20.5″.

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