Richard Misrach

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Richard Misrach on the Eerie Grandeur of Global Trade

Rebecca Solnit considers the photographer’s recent work tracing histories of shipping routes and their impact on the natural environment.

Aperture Celebrates 2024 Gala

Annual benefit honors Nicole R. Fleetwood, Richard Misrach, and Helen Nitkin, in support of Aperture’s New Home in New York City.

8 Photobooks that Consider How Artists Engage with the Environment

From Kimowan Metchewais’s layered images on Indigenous identity to Robert Adams’s meditations on the American West, here are titles that explore the relationship between photography and the natural world.

Documenting the Weaponization of Water Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

In remote stretches of desert, Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo record traces of volunteer efforts—and attempts by Border Patrols to stop them.

Beyond the Wall

Is the U.S.-Mexico border a political calculation or a humanitarian crisis?

Subversive Novelist Seeks Her Muse in Pictures

In San Francisco, the author of the controversial novel A Little Life stages an exhibition about loneliness and beauty.

Richard Misrach on Border Cantos

In early 2016, Aperture will release the latest addition to Richard Misrach’s ongoing Desert Cantos series: an examination of the U.S.–Mexico border.

An Archival Interview with Richard Misrach

The following conversation between Aperture Foundation editor-in-chief, Melissa Harris, and Richard Misrach was recorded at his California studio in March 1992.

Postcards From the Road: Silent Auction Preview

A selection of photographs from Aperture’s The Open Road Benefit silent auction, taking place this fall in NYC.

Dispatches: Jason Fulford on San Francisco

It’s been a year now since I drove from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to San Francisco and let the…

Five Most Popular Interviews of 2012

A look back at Aperture’s top five of 2012.

Richard Misrach – Golden Gate – Signed Editions Now Available

Order your limited signed edition of Richard Misrach’s acclaimed Golden Gate series.

Petrochemical America Panel 09/25 – Recap

A summary in images, notes, and tweets.

Richard Misrach and Kate Orff Discuss Petrochemical America

Melissa Harris talks with Richard Misrach and Kate Orff about the process of depicting and unpacking the complex ecologies featured in Petrochemical America.

Richard Misrach Golden Gate folio now available

Introducing a limited-edition Golden Gate folio from Richard Misrach.

Aperture Announces Fall 2012 Books

New books from Richard Misrach, Daido Moriyama, Martin Parr, Doug Rickard, and many others.

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