Richard Misrach
Helicopter Returning From Deep Water
Horizon Spill, Venice, Louisiana 2010
This photograph is like a reference to
Rhine by Andreas Gursky.
Im not sure which picture I like more, I
like the rhine for its Abstract dull detail.
This photograph has a similar composition,
the horizon in the middle and the ground permeated by a river running through
it. Unlike the Rhine 2 photograph, it looks like a natural scene. You can just see a helicopter nearly at the
centre of the sky of the photograph
The helicopter is going from left to right
and is silhouetted against the clouds and the sky. There are cows in the field
beyond the river. It looks so idyllic, like a quiet scene. I would like to sit
by the river quietly for an hour and eat a picnic.
This relates to my ideas about permanence,
The sea is one of the most permanent views on the earth, it always is the same
sort of colour and the different small waves don’t usually have direct
consequences on what is around them.
The contrast and light in this photograph
is really nice. I think I like this picture because if the colours , it reminds
me of summer time in Richmond and strolling along the river.
The river in the
composition draws me into the image. My ideas are the opposite to the work as
it shows the degradation of the river along the stratch of water where the
powerplant are, I guess this picture is taken before the river reaches the
factories as it is serene. Other pictures in the series are not so serene
This picture shows also what has happened
in this area, where the factories have turned the river into a toxic wasteland
This photograph reminds me of one of my
favourite photographs by Joel Sternfeld in American Prospects.
Because of the direction of the old weathered, lonely basketball hoop. The difference is the setting of an industrial urban wasteland, compared to a rural wasteland.
In 1998, the High
commissioned California-based photographer Richard Misrach to create a body of
work as part of the Museum’s Picturing the South series.
Misrach studied the ecological degradation of a passage of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This is an area where a number of petro-chemical industries are based and which is sometimes referred to as Cancer Alley. Like the Western landscapes for which Misrach is best known, these photographs challenge viewers with environmental and political concerns while seducing them with evocative and lyrically beautiful large scale prints. In focusing on the delicate state of the Mississippi River, Misrach’s work signals not just the environmental challenges facing the South but also the larger costs of our modern world at the dawn of the twenty first century.
To mark the culmination and publication of this body of work in 2012, more than a decade after the project was initiated, a group of twenty-one large scale prints are presented here. This is the first time that many of these important photographs have been shown to a broad public.
Misrach studied the ecological degradation of a passage of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This is an area where a number of petro-chemical industries are based and which is sometimes referred to as Cancer Alley. Like the Western landscapes for which Misrach is best known, these photographs challenge viewers with environmental and political concerns while seducing them with evocative and lyrically beautiful large scale prints. In focusing on the delicate state of the Mississippi River, Misrach’s work signals not just the environmental challenges facing the South but also the larger costs of our modern world at the dawn of the twenty first century.
To mark the culmination and publication of this body of work in 2012, more than a decade after the project was initiated, a group of twenty-one large scale prints are presented here. This is the first time that many of these important photographs have been shown to a broad public.
I like the subtlety of the way the colours
are inverted . It is from his series of inverted colours of bushes.
The colours are vibrant in this pictures.
The picture is of people waiting, but when I look at this picture I want to wit
with them, it looks like they have some activities and some things to do like
putting up tents, they look like fun individuals that it would be fun to do
mundane activities, it looks like the sun is just about to go down, I wonder
what they are waiting for.
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