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Artist-run Gallery - Contemporary Photography
Open Sat 1:00 - 5:00 pm or by appointment
422 Ord St. 2nd floor
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Frame 207. #canon #bnw #rain #abstract #minimalist

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“lover by lover” @seasons_la
archival pigment print 1993/2026

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Frame 166. #Campsnap #bnw #urban #losangeles #ppl

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Frame 161. #canon #bnw #southbay #cycling #streetlife

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Men, Boy Reflected in Glass, Paradise, Nevada 2024. 25.3 x 38” Archival Pigment Print

“The title Toward a Hyperreality is meant to echo Toward A Social Landscape, a seminal 1960’s photography exhibition and book which, along with New Documents, sought to reframe a kind of documentary style. The history of twentieth-century photography is rich with images portraying the streets of American cities as a public stage, suggesting authenticity and capturing spontaneous human gestures in the flow of daily life. By the 1980s and ‘90s, many artists aimed to subvert those notions by intervening or consciously staging their pictures to various degrees. As a student of the medium, all of these movements have greatly informed my work. But as a photographer of the twenty-first century, my work doesn’t aim merely to question the street as a democratic social space—it describes a landscape increasingly constructed to create the illusion of a shared reality, while perpetuating the erasure of the public realm. In this sense, today’s social landscape invites us to enter an image where we perform our public selves, while our experiences are mediated all around us.”

On view through June 6 by appt or Saturdays 1:00 - 5:00

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#images #thankyou

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Gallery hours today, May 16 from 1:00-5:00

Peter Baker / Toward a Hyperreality

“A common misconception about the theory of hyperreality is that it applies to conspicuously artificial places like Disneyland. We imagine that once we exit the spectacle, or put our devices back into our pockets, we re-enter the “real” world. But my practice stems from a feeling that the duplicity of the social landscape is hiding in plain sight— that architecture and facades act as emblems of power and ideology— concealing labor, history, and even violence. In my photographs hyperreality resembles a more subtle, poetic condition— where facts clearly described come under suspicion, qualities of light shape an unsettling beauty, and unfamiliar zones come to pass for the norm.”

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Thank you to all who came out last night to our @printedmatter_artbookfairs after party 🎊 co-hosted with @leroys_happy_place @exotikamag @seasons_la

What an absolute delight to share our wonderful little world with our extended publishing family. Cheers 🥂 everyone!

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End Zone # 1 (First game played with fans at SoFi Stadium after pandemic restrictions lifted) Los Angeles, 2021. 32 x 48” Archival Pigment Print. Mounted to dibond, gray maple frame.

Toward a Hyperreality on view Friday night May 8th during our signing with @matthewconnors_ 8:00 -10:00 pm & the LAABF after party.

See the link in bio for more info about the show & @leroys_happy_place for more about the LAABF after party.

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7th Street & Figueroa (Got Wood, Laker fans) Los Angeles, 2020. 32 x 48” Archival Pigment Print.

Toward a Hyperreality on view at Seasons thru June 6.

The show will be open Friday, May 8th from 8:00 pm onwards during @matthewconnors_ book signing of his new release with @mack_publishing & the official @printedmatterinc LA Art Book Fair after party @leroys_happy_place @the_fulcrum_press in our building 422 Ord St, Los Angeles.

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This May, join us in Los Angeles, New York and London for talks, launches and signings at LAABF, ICP Photobook Fest & Offprint 📣⁠
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More info via link in bio 🔗⁠
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@printedmatter_artbookfairs @icp @offprint_projects⁠
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📸 Image Credits: ⁠
[1] Keisha Scarville, 'Passports' @scarvillek⁠
[2] Matthew Connors, 'The Axe Will Survive the Master' @matthewconnors_⁠
[3] Keisha Scarville, 'Passports'⁠
[4] Dev Dhunsi, 'Mixed' @devdhunsi

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Los Angeles friends, please come out tomorrow night for an opening of my first solo show in LA since 2018, Toward a Hyperreality. This show is the culmination of many years of work & a commitment to photography and the printed picture. The scale and physicality of the prints are meant to be experienced in person and I hope you get the chance to see them.

from the press release:

“Toward a Hyperreality is a body of work about urban space, its consequences, the shifting identity of the contemporary American city and what I see as the socio-spatial schism of the built environment.”

for the full press release and more information see the link in bio

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