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Zoe Crosher - AutoPortrait

The question of how to photograph Los Angeles - a place that moves in shifts and perpetual motion with no real center - is central to Crosher’s recent work. This project investigates LAX and its surrounding infrastructure as a place of non-center and transience, a metaphor for Los Angeles, a city where movement is “not a walking-motion; it breathes in anonymous transit, spread and wide, seen through passing cars or from airplane windows.”

Each of the project’s thirty-one photographs taken between 2001 and 2005 was shot from inside a different hotel or motel surrounding Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Within each photograph Crosher records the descent of an airplane into LAX capturing the tension between peripheral details of interiors and focused images outside the window, animating potential narratives about the room or the world beyond.

Crosher was recently featured in The New York Times Style Magazine, LA Weekly and Modern Painters and was interviewed for public radio’s studio 360. Crosher received a Penny McCall Foundation Publishing Grant in 2006. Her work is included in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Images below are available at the gallery.  All other prints from the LAX: Out the Window series are available through the gallery.  Each print from the series is 27 x 27, archival lightjet print mounted on aluminum.

Zoe Crosher’s first monograph was just published by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and featuring essays by Norman Klein, Pico Iyer and Julian Myers.  Books are available at the gallery for $20 each.