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To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.

Richard Misrach

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Richard Misrach
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 11
Photographer
LA
California
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