Richard Misrach has become a crucial voice in the reemergence of color photography and the large-scale format during the 1970s.

To create the pictures, Misrach used a view camera that holds 8-by-10-inch negatives. He scanned the negatives into a computer, and sometimes digitally removed people, heightening the feeling of isolation. When he was satisfied with an image, it was burned with lasers onto photographic paper that then went through a chemical developing process.