Photography did not invent black and white imagery, but it certainly favored its proliferation to the point that, when color was introduced into the medium, it seemed almost unnatural. With his new work, Misrach seems determined to renew that sense of strangeness, to revive the idea that color is unreliable, artificial. But he is careful not to jeopardize its seriousness. It's a difficult balance to find. – Nancy Princenthal, Art in America

Ansel Adams, classical pianist and renowned photographer, compared the photographic negative to a musical score that can be interpreted/printed in numerous ways. John Cage, an avant-garde composer, collected scores of numerous composers and artists and presented them as graphic art in the 1969 publication “Notations.” It is the fusion of these two ideas, coming from such unlikely sources, that forms the foundation of this project. Since 2006, coinciding with the transition of photographer Richard Misrach from analogue film to digital, the artist has been interested in the negative image in photography as an aesthetic experience in its own right. This body of work – and the book – is a tribute to the end of the analog era in photography.