Richard Misrach was featured as a guest on Life in Seven Songs, a podcast from The San Francisco Standard, hosted by Sophie Bearman. The show asks guests to pick music that sheds light on the story of their lives. Misrach’s choices included songs by Bonnie Raitt, a friend since childhood; Bob Dylan, who provided the soundtrack to Misrach’s time as a student at U.C. Berkeley; and Steve Reich, who Misrach loved to listen to while driving through the desert for his Desert Cantos series.
Through his selection, Misrach tells the story of his development as a photographer, from his first series documenting Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue, to the photographs he made in Hawaii showing people floating in the vast ocean, for his series On the Beach.
Listen to the episode here.