Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Misrach presents his previously unpublished photo-portrait of the messages scrawled by the disaster's victims--on cars, walls, streets, and roofs
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Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Misrach presents his previously unpublished photo-portrait of the messages scrawled by the disaster's victims--on cars, walls, streets, and roofs
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Jumbo-sized. Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD.
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Fine. Signed by author. Signed by Acclaimed Photographer and Author Richard Misrach, in person. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 140 p. Contains: Illustrations, color. Audience: General/trade. A Fine, as New, copy, which was bought new and was never read; and is in Pristine Condition. This edition was issued by the publisher without a dust jacket. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line which ends with a 1. Signed in silver, signature only, on the front black endpaper (this edition does not have a traditional Title page), by Acclaimed Photograph, and Author Richard Misrach, in person, during his Author/photography event in New York City on September 29, 2016. A photo of Richard during the event, and an event announcement will be included. The photographs in "Destroy This Memory" are a stark, affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina, as told by those on the ground, and seen through the lens of contemporary master Photographer Richard Misrach. "Destroy This Memory" presents previously unpublished and starkly compelling photographs. Rest assured, this collectible copy is well protected in an appropriate archival cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
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Fine Condition. No Jacket, As Issued. Signed By Artist. 136 pages. Oversized, horizontal folio hardcover, bound with illustrated paper covered board binding. No text other than the photographic images of words spraypainted in desperation on houses quickly and poignantly abandoned in New Orleans following the devastating storms of Katrina. Signed by the artist in metallic silver colored ink on the front free endpaper. Else, there are no other markings to the interior, and the binding is solid and tight, with sharp corners. 68 full color and full paged heartbreaking and occasionally morbidly funny images.
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Richard Misrach (photographer) Very good. Approximately 15 inches by 12 inches. 140 pages. Color illustrations. 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 "[His] images are for the historical record, not reportage." His Katrina monograph Destroy This Memory won Best Photobook of the Year 2011 at PhotoEspaña. The photographs in Richard Misrach's "Destroy This Memory" are a stark, affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina as told by those on the ground, and seen through the lens of a contemporary master. Rather than simply surveying the damage, Misrach--who has photographed the region regularly since the 1970s, most notably for his ongoing "Cancer Alley" project--found himself drawn to the hurricane-inspired graffiti: messages scrawled in spray paint, crayons, chalk or whatever materials residents and rescue workers happened to have on hand. At turns threatening, desperate, clinical and even darkly humorous, the phrases he captures--the only text that appears in the book--offer revealing and unique human perspectives on the devastation and shock left in the wake of this disaster. "Destroy This Memory" presents previously unpublished and starkly compelling material, all of which Misrach shot with his 4 MP pocket camera while also working on a separate archive of over 1, 000 photographs with his 8 x 10 large-format camera. Created between October and December 2005, this series of images serves as a potent, unalloyed document of the raw experiences of those left to fend for themselves in the aftermath of Katrina. With no essay, titles or even page numbers in the way, the words on these homes, cars and trees offer a searing testament that continues to speak volumes, five years after their original inscription. Richard Misrach (born 1949) is credited with helping to pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation in the 1970s. He has exhibited extensively, and his work is held in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Art Institute of Chicago.
