Paris Photo 2024
Main Sector, Booth B11
7 – 10 November 2024
Preview Day 6 November (invitation only)
Grand Palais
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008 Paris
www.parisphoto.com
For Paris Photo 2024, Large Glass presents a solo show of works by American photographer Mark Ruwedel. We spotlight Ruwedel’s on-going project ‘Los Angeles: Landscapes of Four Ecologies’ (2014- ) with the title making reference to British architectural critic Reyner Banham’s 1971 book, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies).
For three decades, Mark Ruwedel has photographed American deserts and wild spaces that bear traces of human intervention: abandoned remains of early railway lines, brightly sinister nuclear test sites, ruined desert homes outside Los Angeles. “I have come to think of the land as being an enormous historical archive,” he wrote in 1996. “I am interested in revealing the narratives contained within the landscape, especially those places where the land reveals itself as being both an agent of change and the field of human endeavour.”
For the Project, Ruwedel has identified four overlapping landscape ‘systems’: The Rivers, The Eastern Edge, The Hills and Canyons, and The Western Edge. His work captures the dynamic landscapes of the greater LA metropolitan area, shaped by floods, fires, earthquakes and landslides; a place overwritten by industry, irrigation, urban planning and abiding fantasies about authentic wilderness.
For three decades, Mark Ruwedel has photographed American deserts and wild spaces that bear traces of human intervention: abandoned remains of early railway lines, brightly sinister nuclear test sites, ruined desert homes outside Los Angeles. “I have come to think of the land as being an enormous historical archive,” he wrote in 1996. “I am interested in revealing the narratives contained within the landscape, especially those places where the land reveals itself as being both an agent of change and the field of human endeavour.”
For the Project, Ruwedel has identified four overlapping landscape ‘systems’: The Rivers, The Eastern Edge, The Hills and Canyons, and The Western Edge. His work captures the dynamic landscapes of the greater LA metropolitan area, shaped by floods, fires, earthquakes and landslides; a place overwritten by industry, irrigation, urban planning and abiding fantasies about authentic wilderness.