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 the surface of a calm blue ocean
Color photograph of a figure floating in the middle of an ocean framed in bleached wood
A framed color photograph depicting two people in the distance, hugging on the beach while staring out to sea
Framed color photograph of the surface of the sea
Color photograph of a sandy beach with impressions of footprints framed in bleached wood
Color image of two figures swimming in a vast body of water with light reflecting from the sun framed in a bleached wood
Color photograph of ocean water being reflected by the sun framed in bleached wood frame
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 surfer on water with rocks and motion blur framed in bleached wood
Color photograph of the rippled surface of a dark blue sea
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