About this artwork
Renowned for his lush color photographs, Richard Misrach has been making beautiful pictures of complicated landscapes for several decades. His Desert Cantos—an ongoing series of images of the desert, structured in chapters like Ezra Pound’s Cantos—treat floods, fires, and clouds, as well the human scarring of the land and its inhabitants, from nuclear test sites to pits of dead and decaying animals. This scene of Pyramid Lake, Nevada, also entranced explorers of the American West in 19th-century surveys with its strange geological features.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Richard Misrach
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Title
- Swimmers, Pyramid Lake, from the series "Desert Cantos VII: Desert Seas"
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1987
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Medium
- Chromogenic print
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Edition
- 21 of 25
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, below image, lower left, in black ink: "21/25 SWIMMERS, PYRAMID LAKE"; signed and inscribed recto, below image, lower right, in black ink: "Richard Misrach 1987/2006 K.E. [?]"; unmarked verso
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Dimensions
- Image: 46.2 × 59 cm (18 1/4 × 23 1/4 in.); Paper: 50.5 × 60.8 cm (19 15/16 × 23 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Bernard M. and Caryl H. Susman
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Reference Number
- 2008.2
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Copyright
- © Richard Misrach
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