Richard Misrach: On The Beach

An ongoing series exploring the abstracted pattern of an edgeless ocean surface, and the gestures and expressions of bathers adrift in the water.

Color photograph of expansive view of water in bleached wood frame
Color photograph of a figure floating in the middle of an ocean framed in bleached wood
Color photograph of a sandy beach with impressions of footprints framed in bleached wood
Framed color photograph of the seashore, with people in the water and on the sand
Framed color photograph of a surfer falling in the breaking wave.
Color photograph of small waves and ripples on the surface of green water
Color photograph of a lone windsurfer on a choppy silver sea
Color aerial photograph of scattered swimmers in a shallow blue-green sea near the shore
Color photograph of two women floating while holding hands on a calm, green ocean surface
Color photograph of ocean water being reflected by the sun framed in bleached wood frame
Color photograph of surfer on water with rocks and motion blur framed in bleached wood
Color photograph of the surface of a calm blue ocean
Color photograph of the rippled surface of a dark blue sea
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