"Chronologies", An Interview with Richard Misrach -> SEESAW MAGAZINE →
“It was also kind of liberating to rip the pictures from their tight narratives and see what kind of work they would do outside of their original themes. By laying out the book in chronological order formal and conceptual connections surfaced that hadn’t been obvious before. For example, in 1988 I photographed the effects of civilization on Yosemite, juxtaposed with the timeless natural icon of Half-Dome. Then, I found myself in Egypt next, doing the same thing with modern-day Giza against the backdrop of the Pyramids.”
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