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- Title
- Shiprock Triptych #1
- Artist
- Richard Misrach
- Physical Description
- The lower portion of this work depicts a dusty brown landscape with a craggy rock formation rising in the central portion of the horizon. A dirt road is shown in the foreground. The upper portion depicts a vast, cloudless sky in tones of blue and pink.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1949
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1987
- Accession Number
- 2004/2.59.2
- Medium and Support
- cibachrome print on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.60773
- Primary Keywords
- mountains
- plains
- rock
- sky
- Title
- Shiprock Triptych #1
- Artist
- Richard Misrach
- Physical Description
- The lower half of this work depicts a dusty brown landscape with a craggy rock formation rising in the central portion of the horizon. The upper portion depicts a vast, cloudless sky in tones of blue and gray.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1949
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1987
- Accession Number
- 2004/2.59.3
- Medium and Support
- cibachrome print on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.60773
- Primary Keywords
- mountains
- plains
- rock
- sky
- Title
- Shiprock Triptych #1
- Artist
- Richard Misrach
- Physical Description
- Born and raised in Los Angeles, Richard Misrach first began to photograph western landscapes as an undergraduate at Berkeley. Beginning in the late 1970s, he traveled extensively in the American West, using a large-format camera and color film to make beautiful and technically precise photographs of the often-disastrous effects mankind has had on the environment. For Shiprock Triptych #1, Misrach traveled to the Navajo and Chuska volcanic fields that stretch between northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, where Shiprock, the unique natural monument sacred to the Navajo, sits in close proximity to uranium mines and mill tailings (the radioactive waste resulting from the extraction and processing of uranium) that contaminate drinking and irrigation water and diffuse carcinogenic radon gas. Created from a volcanic eruption that occurred over 30 million years ago, Shiprock is shown in Misrach’s images as a majestic if distant presence, alone in the center of a sparse landscape. The three photographs—taken at intervals over the course of the day—emphasize both the actual passage of time and the sense of timelessness conjured by such natural monuments.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1949
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1987
- Accession Number
- 2004/2.59.1
- Medium and Support
- cibachrome print on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.60773
- Primary Keywords
- mountains
- plains
- rock
- sky