{"id":99037,"date":"2025-10-02T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/99037\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:38:15","slug":"richard-misrachs-strangely-evocative-photos-of-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/99037\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Misrach\u2019s strangely evocative photos of container\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCargo\u00a0was a\u00a0celebration of extraordinary light \u2013 the atmosphere of Golden Gate,\u201d Misrach says. \u200b\u201cI literally fixed my 8\u00d710 camera the same and didn\u2019t move it at all. The change every day is not my perspective but the weather changing in different and beautiful ways.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Cargo\u00a0is a\u00a0portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/chris-carlsson-processed-world-interview-how-to-end-neoliberalism\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">neoliberalism<\/a> reaching its pathological conclusion, following the principle of profit over people. It is a\u00a0feat of engineering and commerce hiding in plain sight \u2013 the proverbial elephant in the room.\u00a0\u200b\u201cCargo ships are loaded with history. They were a\u00a0revolution in global trade, but at the same time 3% of global warming is caused by these ships,\u201d Misrach says. \u200b\u201cThey\u2019re just so extraordinary, and they\u2019re also invisible. We\u2019ve been driving past these things for years, and because they\u2019re omnipresent, we don\u2019t see\u00a0them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Misrach\u2019s photographs are marked by ambiguity that meets you\u00a0where you are, be it the first flush of wonder at the mythical Pacific Ocean in all its glory, or casting a\u00a0knowing eye at capitalism\u2019s insatiable armada making its way to the shore. \u200b\u201cThe ships are troublesome reminders of industrial civilisation at its most aggressive, behemoths that cross the Pacific to feed American appetites for fuel and manufactured goods,\u201d Rebecca Sunlit writes in the book\u2019s introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCargo\u00a0was a\u00a0celebration of extraordinary light \u2013 the atmosphere of Golden Gate,\u201d Misrach says. \u200b\u201cI literally fixed my 8\u00d710&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,14921,366,18,117,63116,13676,51599,63118,19,17,24863,63114,63119,694,34482,63115,63120,63117,47472,63113],"class_list":{"0":"post-99037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-cargo","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-focuses","17":"tag-global","18":"tag-globalisation","19":"tag-hiding","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-lens","23":"tag-lifeblood","24":"tag-misrachs","25":"tag-modern","26":"tag-neoliberalism","27":"tag-photobook","28":"tag-plain","29":"tag-presence","30":"tag-richard","31":"tag-ships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}