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(MISRACH, RICHARD). Misrach, Richard & Rebecca Solnit. New York, NY: Aperture, I00250726. 2025. First Edition. 15.1/4 x 11.3/4", Small Folio. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 978-1683952701

PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF "CARGO" HERE! MR. MISRACH WILL BE SIGNING COPIES AT ARCANA ON SATURDAY, JULY 26th BETWEEN 4:00 AND 6:00 PM. WE WILL BEGIN SHIPPING TUESDAY, JULY 29th.

156pp, 64 color illustrations. Designed by Masumi Shibata. "Harkening back to his Golden Gate Bridge series - which the artist produced from his front porch over the course of four years beginning in 1997 - "Cargo" centers on the light, water, and weather of the San Francisco Bay. He began creating this body of work in 2021 amid the pandemic and its attendant lockdowns. Captured at different times of day from a single location in San Francisco, these photographs speak to his enduring interest in bearing witness to the world around him from a singular vantage point over the course of months or years. Misrach describes this series as a meditation on and celebration of the setting of the San Francisco Bay. With these works, he also contemplates the design, function, and history of the ships in the bay, and all of the thousands of workers implied in the images. “Behind these ships, there is a remarkable - if invisible - global workforce that builds them, and inhabits them, that packs and unloads them, that maneuvers them over oceans and canals, sometimes in dangerous situations, toward their eventual berths. Along with the extraordinary achievement and value these cargo ships symbolize, they also represent the complex, challenging side of our critical, intertwined, international commerce. In this historical moment, they allude to the threat that is global warming.” A brand new example of this stunning production additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Richard Misrach" in black ink on the title page.

Inventory Number: I00250726