Golden gate2001
by Richard Misrach
"Golden Gate offers yet another dimension to celebrated photographer Richard Misrach's artistic output. Three years ago, he and his family moved into a house in the Berkeley hills of Northern California. Since then, Misrach has been obsessively photographing the magisterial view of the Golden Gate Bridge from his front porch, each photograph taken from the exact same viewpoint at different times of day.
The eighty-five photographs reproduced here, from a series of over seven hundred, capture the opening between bay and ocean, and the famous bridge, in every light and weather condition. The perils of cliche would have overcome most photographers, but Misrach's pictures elevate his subject to the sublime - banks of charcoal cotton or ocher clouds; tangerine, lemon, and rosy sunsets; heavy...