Richard Misrach: Cargo (signed edition)
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Eerie, sparse, and undeniably beautiful, Richard Misrach’s images offer a timely meditation on the profound impact of global trade on the environment.
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 156
Number of images: 64
Publication date: 2025-06-10
Measurements: 15.25 x 11.75 x 1 inches
ISBN: 9781683952701
“Richard Misrach contemplates the impact of global trade on the environment through a painterly photographic study of stalwart ships.”—Vanity Fair
“Misrach’s photographs become potent symbols of transformation, tension, and interdependence in the contemporary world.”—Lenscratch
Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, 1949) is one of the most influential color photographers of his generation. His work is held in the collections of over fifty major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. His previous Aperture titles include Destroy This Memory (2010), Golden Gate (2012), Petrochemical America (with Kate Orff, 2012), The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings (2015), Border Cantos (with Guillermo Galindo, 2016), and Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning (2021).
Rebecca Solnit is a writer, a historian, an activist, and the author of more than twenty books, including Orwell’s Roses (2022), Recollections of My Nonexistence (2020), Men Explain Things to Me (2014), A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009), A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005), and Hope in the Dark (2004). She writes regularly for the Guardian, serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International, and recently launched the climate project Not Too Late. She is based in San Francisco.