Richard Misrach has said that the work in the series On the Beach is "suffused with a sense of the sublime, but it also begins to expose our vulnerability and fragility as human beings." Light, color, and form are crucial components in Misrach's explorations of difficult subjects. In On the Beach, he uses a gorgeous, slowly shifting color palette gleaned from changes in depth and tide; abstract patterns of waves and rippling water; and beaches both empty and cluttered. Throughout this series, Misrach balances the minutiae of human gesture against the massive scale of the sea. Richard Misrach is one of today's contemporary masters, internationally renowned for his carefully considered and beautifully rendered epic works. On the Beach continues in the same large-scale photographic tradition as his earlier series, The Desert Cantos and Golden Gate, which were created in an 8 x 10 inch negative format. The monograph Richard Misrach: On the Beach was published by Aperture in the fall of 2007 and a traveling exhibition of this work premiered at the Art Institute of Chicago in September 2007, it is currently on view at The Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. This print is presented in a mylar folder with a hardcover copy of the Aperture published monograph Richard Misrach: On the Beach, all enclosed in a specially designed clamshell case.