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| 1. |  | William Abranowicz 1988 Bedroom, Santorini, Greece Gelatin silver print Various Afterimage Gallery |
| 2. |  | John Divola 1996-2001 D29F33 [Dogs Chasing My Car in the Deserts] Gelatin silver print Provided by the artist - John Divola |
| 3. |  | Ted Orland 2004 Three Trees in Blizzard Ultrachrome pigment-based ink print Provided by the artist - Ted Orland © Ted Orland - Used with permission |
| 4. |  | Tom Zetterstrom 1994 First Snow, Pennsylvania Gelatin silver print 5 1/4 x 8 Afterimage Gallery |
| 5. |  | Margaret Watkins 1919 Design - Curves. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Warren and Margot Coville Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress Clarence H. White School of Photography |
| 6. |  | Lewis Baltz 1974 West Wall, Unoccupied Industrial Structure, 20 Airway Drive, Costa Mesa LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art © Lewis Baltz; Courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art Photo Synthesis Colin Westerbeck This picture by Lewis Baltz is just one example of the hidden treasures in the Photography Department collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Baltz is a seminal figure in the recent history of photography, not just in California but in general. He was one of several photographers working in the West who were included in a 1975 exhibition titled "New Topographics." This term stuck because the icy objectivity it suggested was the essential quality that the photographs shared. Almost all cast a cold eye on a landscape being transformed by human incursion. Baltz's photographs are minimal in every way. They adapt, eerily, the aesthetic of Minimalism then being created by painters and sculptors. But they also confront, as if in silent protest, the minimal modern architecture of tract housing and industrial parks. Their mix of cool scrutiny and irrepressible complaint is intended to disconcert. It affected viewers that way 30 years ago, and it continues to do so today when such feelings are more common partly because of Baltz's own images. I said treasures like this are hidden at LACMA because the Photography Department has had scant opportunity to show its permanent collection. Since 2001, just one exhibition has been organized as a showcase for the museum's holdings in photography, which the department has been able to exhibit on a regular basis in only a short corridor. Perhaps the museum expansion now underway will make new space possible. Since the department was founded more than 20 years ago, with an acquisition policy focused primarily on work done after 1940, a collection of more than 8,000 photographs has been assembled. Certainly the public could benefit from more frequent access to this accumulated wealth of art. [Originally published in West Magazine : May 7, 2006, p.15] |
| 7. |  | Ron van Dongen n.d. Allium cepa L. [B&W Flora] Black and white print Provided by the artist - Ron van Dongen Courtesy of Ron van Dongen (SL183) |
| 8. |  | Ron van Dongen n.d. Saxifraga x geum 'Dentata' [B&W Flora] Black and white print Provided by the artist - Ron van Dongen Courtesy of Ron van Dongen (SL120) |
| 9. |  | Ron van Dongen n.d. Papaver rhoeas 'Sorbet' [B&W Flora] Black and white print Provided by the artist - Ron van Dongen Courtesy of Ron van Dongen (SL112) |
| 10. |  | Ron van Dongen n.d. Tulipa 'Blushing Beauty' III [B&W Flora] Black and white print Provided by the artist - Ron van Dongen Courtesy of Ron van Dongen (SL108) |
| 11. |  | Ron van Dongen n.d. Magnolia grandiflora [Color Flora] Color print Provided by the artist - Ron van Dongen Courtesy of Ron van Dongen (CSL050) |
| 12. |  | Luca Gilli 2001 Lago Scuro, Parco Nazionale dell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano (PR) [Silenzi di forme] Gelatin silver print Provided by the artist - Luca Gilli |
| 13. |  | Burton Pritzker 1988, June Baja XIX [Under the Shadow of Baja] Gelatin silver print Provided by the artist - Burton Pritzker |
| 14. |  | Dick Arentz 1989 Poles and Tracks, West Virgina Palladium print 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 ) Galerie Johannes Faber |
| 15. |  | Andraos & Tabet n.d. Untitled Gelatin silver print Source requested |
| 16. |  | Volker Seding 1991 #23 [China] Gelatin silver print Stephen Bulger Gallery |
| 17. |  | Frank Yamrus n.d. Low tide at Far East End Beach, Provincetown [Bared & Bended] Watermark Fine Art Photographs & Books (CLOSED) |
| 18. |  | Frank Yamrus n.d. Trees in snowstorm at Snail Road (3), Provincetown [Bared & Bended] Watermark Fine Art Photographs & Books (CLOSED) |
| 19. |  | John Grant n.d. Stormy Dahlia [Flowers] Archival pigment print, from high resolution scan 24 x 20 in Kathleen Ewing Gallery © John Grant Studios, Courtesy of Kathleen Ewing Gallery/ Washington DC |
| 20. |  | Michael Levin n.d. Torri [Reveal] Watermark Fine Art Photographs & Books (CLOSED) |
| 21. |  | Nicholas Hughes 2007 Untitled [Edge - Verse II] C-print Provided by the artist - Nicholas Hughes |
| 22. |  | Nicholas Hughes 2007 Untitled [Immaterial] Lambda print Provided by the artist - Nicholas Hughes |
| 23. |  | Lukas Roth 2002 Untitled (construction site) Kopeikin Gallery (CLOSED - 2020) © Lukas Roth |
| 24. |  | Nick Dekker n.d. Lily I Platinum print 12 x 9.75 in OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art © by Nick Dekker, Courtesy of OMC Gallery, Huntington Beach Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. |
| 25. |  | George H. Seeley 1910 (ca) Spring Platinum print 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (Z1251) Signed by the artist in pencil l.r. recto; "58" label affixed to u.r. verso; "'Spring' by George H. Seeley, Stockbridge, MA, USA" written in ink on verso |
| 26. |  | Harold E. Edgerton 1965 22, Swift through cardboard Gelatin silver print 18 x 22 Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery |
| 27. |  | Chad Kleitsch 2002 Untitled #55 [Flowers - White] Archival Epson print Various Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery |
| 28. |  | Zhao Shu-wu 1980s (ca) Geese 5 13/16 x 7 13/16 Barry Singer Gallery |
| 29. |  | Nanjo Shunsuke Francois n.d. A Sunday Afternoon (video) Point of View Gallery |
| 30. |  | Nanjo Shunsuke Francois n.d. The Beginning of Something Beautiful Point of View Gallery |
| 31. |  | Dominique Bollinger 1996 Lis [Flowers] Platinum Palladium print 10 x 12 cm Provided by the artist - Dominique Bollinger |
| 32. |  | Dominique Bollinger 1997 Stromboli #2, Isole Eolie [The South] Gelatin silver print 20 x 20 cm Provided by the artist - Dominique Bollinger |
| 33. |  | Lisa M. Robinson 2005 Sonata [Snowbound] C-print 28 x 36 in Provided by the artist - Lisa M. Robinson Included in the monograph Lisa M. Robinson Snowbound (Kehrer Verlag, 2007). Photograph was made using a 4 x 5 in field camera. |
| 34. |  | David Stephenson n.d. St. Bernard's Chapel Chromogenic print 22 x 22 Candace Dwan Gallery |
| 35. |  | Laura Letinsky 2002 #55 [I did not remember I had forgotten] Chromogenic print 34 7/8 x 26 3/4 in Edwynn Houk Gallery |