Richard Misrach: Destroy This Memory Fiction a moment when signs and

a moment when signs and portents indicate that the long anticipated death of the planet is finally at hand

Birdie McAdam

the couple must quickly decide whom to trust

her five-foot-long salamander familiar Sparky

Richard Misrach: Destroy This Memory Fiction a moment when signs andThe photographs in Richard Misrach's "Destroy This Memory" are a stark, affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina as told by those on the ground, and seen through the lens of a contemporary master. Rather than simply surveying the damage, Misrach who has photographed the region regularly since the 1970s, most notably for his ongoing "Cancer Alley" project found himself drawn to the hurricane inspired graffiti: