Richard Misrach: Color Reverse

The artist’s first digitally photographed series offers an homage to the analog photographic negative. Switching positive and negative along the color spectrum, Misrach transforms the natural landscape in extreme and fascinating ways.

Color reversal image of a dancer on a cliff mid pose alongside the ocean framed in black
Color image of a color reversal photograph depicting a large rock formation on the beach framed in bleached frame
Inverted color photograph of a large rock formation on a beach at low tide
Inverted color photograph of a person standing on the seashore looking at the horizon
Inverted color photograph of a sand dune reflected in a still body of water
Black-and-white photograph of scattered swimmers in a calm ocean near the shore
Inverted color photograph of a person doing a handstand in a calm shallow sea
Inverted color photograph of fallen and broken tree limbs resting on bare trees
Inverted color photograph from above of a person standing on the edge of the seashore looking at the water
Inverted color photograph of a person standing in water before a sandy beach
Inverted color photograph of a person standing on a sandy beach with a mountain range on the horizon
Inverted black and white photograph of pine trees in a snowdrift
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Color photograph of the US/Mexico border with a mountain range in the distance with pinkish blue skies

Richard Misrach: Border Cantos
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Richard Misrach: On The Beach
Color photograph of the distant Golden Gate Bridge under a linear break in the clouds

Richard Misrach: Golden Gate
Color photograph of a road receding into the distant desert with red-orange tablelands and snow-capped mountains on the horizon

Richard Misrach: Desert Cantos