Maybe it’s just me, but I still think this is one of the best series of photographs I’ve ever seen.
Category: thoughts
more from richard misrach
People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.
Richard Misrach
words from richard misrach
To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.
Richard Misrach
more from robert adams
…you can’t turn away from pollution and crowding, but it’s important to try to discern some kind of hope that points beyond it.
Robert Adams
wile e. coyote
This character has been hanging around the campground for a few months now. He’ll sleep right in the yard now and then, follow us around almost every day, and mouth off at night to let us know he’s here. He’s never aggressive or threatening but always curious about what we’re up to. It’s fascinating to be able to watch how a coyote behaves from day to day.
happiness type 1
The NOMO app has an assortment of interesting cameras. Many aren’t worth a second look, some are gimmicky, some, like the half-frame PEN I use for fractured landscapes, are useful. Some can simply be a blast to play with once in awhile.
This is one of those. In 1956 a Chinese company, Tianjian, introduced a simple medium format camera they called Happiness Type 1. The name is a bit cheesy if you ask me, but hey – I like the color.
words from robert adams
In common with many photographers, I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this too belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.
Robert Adams from his book ‘What Can We Believe Where?’
desert topographics 