Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach

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Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard MisrachExcerpt from book: The beauty, mystery, and abuse of the American desert are topics explored by Richard Misrach in his breathtaking Desert Cantos series, one of the most ambitious and innovative photographic projects of our time. Evolving over the course of two decades, the series now comprises eighteen numbered and named subseries, or cantos, and a prologue. With subjects as diverse as a military base in Utah, a man made flood in California, sublime

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