TELEGRAPH 3 AM
Richard Misrach
SIGNED and DATED by Richard Misrach on the front endpaper.
Designed by Roger Minick and Richard Misrach.
Description: Berkeley, CA: Cornucopia Press, 1974. First Edition of 3000 total copies printed. Hardcover in photo illustrated dust jacket (now protected with Brodart mylar cover). Illustrated endpapers. Offset lithographic reproductions with duotone photographs. SIGNED and DATED 1974 by Richard Misrach on the front endpaper.
Condition: Near fine hardback book in Very Good dust jacket (now protected with Brodart mylar cover), unclipped with yellowing as expected and a 1 inch tear on the top back folded corner.
Additional Information: Richard Misrach photographed the homeless population around UC Berkeley, his college campus. The linear layout follows them through daylight into the shadows of 3 A.M. in order to give a deeper sense of the reality of their lives and the homeless problem, which was growing due to the deinstitutionalization movement. This important book won the 1975 Western Book Award. The quiet intensity of the photographs speaks for itself. The now famous artist comments: "I would work from 11 p.m. through the morning,” he says. “They were lean times, I was house sitting and living in a van.” He received his first National Endowment of the Arts fellowship for this series documenting the street people of Telegraph Avenue, five years before he began working on his famed Desert Cantos series. This is the artist's first book.
Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, California in 1949) is an American photographer "firmly identified with the introduction of color to 'fine' [art] photography in the 1970s, and with the use of large-format traditional cameras" (Nancy Princenthal, Art in America).
David Littlejohn of the Wall Street Journal calls Misrach "the most interesting and original American photographer of his generation," describing his work as running "parallel to that of Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, two German contemporaries." Littlejohn notes that all three used a large scale color format that defied the expectations of fine art photography at the time.
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