Gallery Luisotti (Santa Monica) presents a selection of photographs focusing on three visually distinct yet thematically coherent aspects of the gallery’s program: conceptual developments in Californian photography during the 1970s, postwar reexamination of the European landscape, and contemporary counterparts whose work continually question the role photography plays in critically evaluating our social landscape. The gallery is extremely pleased to be able to present vintage Ektacolor prints from John Divola’s seminal series, Zuma, alongside several exceptional Prototype prints by Lewis Baltz and two rare photograms by Barbara Kasten; three formative Southern Californian practitioners whose work combined Minimalist aesthetics with concerns rooted in Conceptualism. The works of Joachim Brohm, Simone Nieweg, Heinrich Riebesehl, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, and Wilhelm Schürmann collectively present a portrait of post-World War II Europe examined in the same clinical manner and with the same critical eye as their American contemporaries from the New Topographics. Ron Jude, Mark Ruwedel, and Catherine Wagner, whose contemporary work is rooted in investigating the ‘man-altered landscape’ offer examples of how our relationship to images has changed as photography’s role has continually expanded.
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