Swamp and Pipeline, Geismar, Louisiana
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Swamp and Pipeline, Geismar, Louisiana
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Richard Misrach
American, born 1949
American, born 1949
Date
1998, printed 2012
Medium
Pigmented inkjet print
Accession #
2012.7
Dimensions
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Location
Currently Not on View
Description
Richard Misrach, renowned for his contemporary landscapes of the American West, received a commission from the High Museum for its Picturing the South initiative in 1998. He chose to photograph the highly industrialized section of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans known as Cancer Alley.
Misrach described Cancer Alley as a “remarkable corridor of historic, cultural, and natural resources, which in the past decades has been virtually decimated by the introduction of the petro-chemical industry. Alongside restored and potentially restorable classic antebellum plantations sit over 136 behemoth industrial sites—a bizarre juxtaposition of the charming and the horrific.”
Credit
Commissioned with funds from the H. B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust, Lucinda W. Bunnen, and High Museum of Art Enhancement FundImage Copyright
© 1998 Richard Misrach / Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, Pace-MacGill Gallery and Marc Selwyn Fine Arts.