The Odd Couple Missiles and Petroglyphs The forcible pairing a fragmented photograph of a missile on top of a part of a petroglyph may seem like an odd pairing, but the jarring juxtaposition of a machine on a mission of death and an ancient drawing actually has an odd...
Perspective as Photography One of the paradoxes of the discovery of perspective during the early Renaissance was the fact that landscape painting played so small a part in this new “science.” Today, art students are taught to use perspective to measure the...
The Wall, the Fence, the Desert In 1914 America’s poet Robert Frost wrote a poem, Mending Wall, made famous by its opening line: Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the...
Killing Fields And Acceptable Risks Who knows what the High Museum was thinking when it asked famed photographer Richard Misrach (1949-) to produce a series of photographs for their ongoing project, “Picturing the South.” By 1998, Misrach was known for...
Deliberate Destruction The Unblinking Eye of Richard Misrach There is the technological history of color photography and then there is the social history of color photography and finally, last but not least, is the art world acceptance of color photography. If one...
