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10th of september - 10th of october JOHN HUMBLE - LA River  Since the mid-1970s American photographer John Humble has documented greater Los Angeles, creating images that explore the postmodern qualities of America's second largest city. This exhibition focuses on two distinct bodies of work from Humble's lengthy career: the urban landscape and the Los Angeles River. Both are journeys through the built environment and diverse neighborhoods that make up the city. John Humble was one of eight Los Angeles-based photographers awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979 to document the city on the occasion of its bicentennial. Since then he has continued to document the city's urban landscape. Humble provides a view of the metropolis where the traditional boundaries between commercial and residential neighborhoods are flexible and often integrated. As Humble quietly recorded this awkward juxtaposition, he revealed the inharmonious qualities of life in Los Angeles. This photograph is one of Humble's earliest color prints made with the large-format camera. Fascinated with the myriad power lines that cut across the skies of Los Angeles, he adopted a low horizon to create a sense of foreboding as the tall pylons power over (literally and figuratively) the mobile home below.
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