Aperture is pleased to release this limited-edition print by Richard Misrach in anticipation of his forthcoming book, Cargo (Aperture, 2025).
Richard Misrach works in grand scale. Photographing throughout the American West since the mid-1970s, he has produced a wide-ranging survey of the political, environmental, industrial, and social changes of the last half-century. A pioneering documentarian, Misrach constructs large-format compositions that lean into the tension between formal aesthetics and political idealism. He formed what would become his epic masterpiece Desert Cantos, in 1979; the ongoing work remains an indelible record of the human impact on nature. In 2021, Misrach began to document the Port of Oakland from a vantage point overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Cargo (January 2, 2024, 7:06 am) is among the works in this series, which will be published in spring 2025 by Aperture. Vast, painterly seascapes pockmarked with ships take new meaning for Misrach, referencing global supply chain issues and the realities of global capitalism. “To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm,” Misrach has said. “The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.”
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Cargo (January 2, 2024, 7:06 am)
Pigment print
20 x 24 inches
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered by the artist
Richard Misrach 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 Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Metropolitan Museum of 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), and Border Cantos (with Guillermo Galindo, 2016).
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