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Richard Misrach is widely recognized for helping to pioneer the reemergence of color photography in the 1970s and large-format images that are in common practice today. For over fifty years, Misrach has photographed the dynamic landscape of the American West, focusing his camera on the environmental, social, and political issues of the region. His best known and ongoing epic series, Desert Cantos, comprises forty distinct but related groups of pictures that explore the precarious relationship between humans and the natural world. Misrach's sublime images of desert terrain scarred by corrugated steel fencing, rivers and bayous seeping with petrochemical sludge, and abandoned nuclear test sites envelop us in the complexities of our times.