In October 1991, immediately following a catastrophic firestorm that struck the Oakland and Berkeley hills, renowned Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach ventured into the fire zone armed with his eight-by-ten-inch view camera, recording both stark vistas and intimate details of destroyed homes. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fire, BAMPFA and the Oakland Museum of California each present forty photographs from the series, including fourteen large-format images whose immense scale invites the viewer to enter into Misrach's quiet elegies.
Read full descriptionRichard Misrach: Oakland Fire #104-91, 1991; archival pigment print; 60 x 72 in.; gift of the artist. © Richard Misrach 1991.
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
frame: 96 x 120 (frame) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.1.1
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
59 1/2 x 75 in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.1.5
1991/2010
Archival pigment print
59 1/2 x 75 in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2010.22
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.22
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
59 1/2 x 75 in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.1.4
1991; printed 2011
Archival pigment print
59 1/2 x 75 in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.1.3
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
59 1/2 x 75 in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.1.6
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.1
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.3
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.2
1991; printed 2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.8
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.4
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.11
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.9
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.15
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.19
1991; printed 2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.21
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.20
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.24
1991/2011
Archival pigment print
11 11/16 x 14 3/16 (image) in.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the artist
2011.28.25