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Richard Misrach—well known for sublime and expansive landscapes morethat focus on the relationship between humans and their environment—offers his insight into creating photographs that are visually beautiful and contain cultural implications

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Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability reading book secret policeMoving beyond the usual genres of form endemic to graphic designs canonical history, Designing Documents proposes a design history that centers bureaucratic instruments like money, passports, certificates, property deeds, and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership, grant permission, and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory, and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite their apparent