Lens Work Celebrating LACMA’s Experimental at Fifty

1 Robert Heinecken 4 Eadweard Muybridge 7 William L arson 1 0 Chris McCaw 1 3 Susan Rankaitis United States, 1931–2006 England, 1830–1904, United States, b. 1942 United States, b. 1971 United States, b. 1949 active United States Pale Mannequin Dreaming Transmission 0049, 1974 Sunburned GSP #436 (Nevada/ Near #11, 1981 of Imperfection, 1973 Animal Locomotion Plate #483 Summer Solstice), 2010 Electro-carbon print Gelatin silver print (Lady, Parasol & Basket), 1887 Gelatin silver print and chalk on canvas Ralph M. Parsons Fund Gelatin silver print Anonymous gift, Los Angeles, in honor Ralph M. Parsons Fund Collotype M.88.138.3 Photographic Arts Council, 2011 of Robert Sobieszek M.85.149.3 M.2011.54 M.2005.150.112 The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, An early fax machine served as both lens gift of the Annenberg Foundation, acquired from and printer to create and transmit this image. In this literal , light etches the This chimerically colored image was generated Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin trajectory of the sun, marking the duration by manipulating basic black-and-white photo- 2 Darryl Curran M.2008.40.1502 of the image making. graphic chemicals. United States, b. 1935 Eadweard Muybridge’s stop-motion captures 8 Doug Rickard Reflecting Clouds, 1971 of human locomotion were predecessors of the United States, b. 1968 moving image. 1 1 Mark Kessell 1 4 Masood Kamandy #120.074209, Fresno, CA.2009, 2010, Screenprint on aluminum Australia, b. 1957, active United States United States, b. 1981 Gift of Darryl J. Curran printed 2011 M.2006.162.1 1048—Myopia VIII, 1999 Overlap Error, 2012 5 Bertha E. Jaques Pigment print United States, 1863–1941 Ralph M. Parsons Fund Inkjet print (pigment based) M.2011.119.1 Ralph M. Parsons Fund Purchased with funds provided by the 3 Ricardo Sanguinetti Common Thistle, c. 1906–15 M.2001.3 Ralph M. Parsons Fund and the Photographic Argentina, b. 1940 Doug Rickard sourced this image from Arts Council, 2012 the all-seeing Google Maps . As a contemporary Daguerreotype—the earliest Purchased with funds provided by the Brooks M.2012.211.2 Untitled, c. 1970 photographic process, in which no Institute of Photography and the Ralph M. Masood Kamandy focuses on mundane negative print is created—this unique image stands contrary Parsons Fund everyday items and digitally transforms them Ralph M. Parsons Fund 9 Steven Pippin to photography’s reproducibility. AC1992.6.1 into exposés on imaginary light and space. M.2012.139 England, b. 1960 After placing the subject directly onto coated Ricardo Sanguinetti experimented with color paper, a white silhouette remains where light Self-Portrait, 1991 1 2 Diller + Scofidio by cross processing color transparency film could not penetrate in the early cameraless 1 5 Sheila Pinkel Gelatin silver print Founded 1979, New York as a color negative. cyanotype process. United States, b. 1941 Ralph M. Parsons Fund Elizabeth Diller M.2002.224.2 Poland, b. 1954, active United States Untitled, c. 1974–82 6 Christopher Russell A washing machine transformed into a camera Ricardo Scofidio Gelatin silver print United States, b. 1974 created this self-portrait through the rinse cycle. Gift of the artist United States, b. 1935 M.2011.149.1 Explosion #1, 2013 Soft Sell, 1993, digitally remastered Folded photosensitive paper acts as both Inkjet print (pigment based) 2003 subject and medium in this cameraless image. Purchased with funds provided by the Mark and Hilarie Moore Family Trust Video transferred to DVD, 8:27 min. M.2014.173.1 Ralph M. Parsons Discretionary Fund M.2003.97.1–.3 This image incorporates a visible photographic mishap—the —and the removal of a layer The repetition of the still photograph of photo imagery, leaving a hybrid photo-drawing. is transformed into a moving image.

1 6 David Berg 2 0 Anton Stankowski 2 4 Anne Collier 2 8 Harry Callahan 3 2 William S. Burroughs United States, b. 1956 Germany, 1906–1998 United States, b. 1970 United States, 1912–1999 United States, 1914–1997

Untitled, 1999 Simultaneous Enlargement, 1937 Untitled Aura Photo Windows, c. 1965 Brion Gysin (A.C. 02/ 03/ 03, #2), 2003 England, 1916–1986, active Morocco Leather wallet with twelve paintings Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print and France on Mylar in plastic foldout The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection Dye diusion transfer print The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, Gift of the Catharine Clark Gallery AC1992.197.117 Ralph M. Parsons Fund gift of the Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Untitled, c. 1965 and the artist Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin M.2003.144a From the manuscript The Third Mind AC1999.185.1a–m M.2008.40.364 2 1 Charles Swedlund The Polaroid aura camera allegedly made a Gelatin silver prints and ink on paper Referencing prepackaged, anonymous images Harry Callahan’s repetition and layering United States, b. 1935 person’s aura visible by interpreting feedback Purchased with funds provided by the found in drugstore wallets, these imagined of negatives transforms familiar objects into from sensors attached to the subject. Hiro Yamagata Foundation landscapes are painted on Mylar and stand an abstract formal language. The Whole Show, 1973 AC1993.56.70.1 as the “negatives” for photographic prints. Gelatin silver prints mounted onto buttons 2 5 Wilson Alwyn Bentley Ralph M. Parsons Fund United States, 1865–1931 2 9 Joyce Neimanas 3 3 José Manuel Fors 1 7 Roy L ichtenstein M.2012.122.1–.25 United States, b. 1944 Cuba, b. 1956 United States, 1923–1997 Untitled, c. 1920 Untitled #15, 1981 Memory Bundles, 1999 Fish and Sky, 1967 2 2 Eileen Quinlan Gelatin silver print Internal dye diusion prints United States, b. 1972 Ralph M. Parsons Fund Gelatin silver print, newsprint, and twine Gelatin silver print and silkscreen Ralph M. Parsons Fund M.2001.104 Ralph M. Parsons Fund print mounted on Vari-Vue plastic AC1994.124.1 Untitled, 2007 M.2000.112.1a Ralph M. Parsons Fund The imperceptible details of a snowflake From The Full Edition of Paper White with Yellow M.89.138 are made visible through a microscopic lens. Distressed bound together print 3 0 Robert Frank form a sculptural entity representing personal The magnifying and multiple lenticular Ralph M. Parsons Fund Switzerland, b. 1924, history, time, and memories. lens produces a 3-D eect. 2 6 Dr. Dain L . Tasker M.2008.13.1 active United States United States, 1872–1964 Created at the turn from analog to digital Hoboken, 1955, 1955, printed 1970s 1 8 Mieczyslaw Berman photography, the techniques in this composition— The Lily, 1930 Poland, 1903–1975 literally smoke and mirrors—intentionally play Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print, hand colored with assumptions regarding digital rendering. Ralph M. Parsons Fund Los Angeles County Fund Lindbergh, 1927 AC1998.131.1 31.34.5 Photomontage 2 3 A. Michael Noll Consecutive negatives become a new, Gift of Nelly and Jim Kilroy through the Based on an X-ray, this work straddles United States, b. 1939 indeterminate narrative. 1990 Collectors Committee science and art. AC1997.236.1 Gaussian-Quadratic, 1963 3 1 Calvert Richard Jones 2 7 Phil Chang Gelatin silver print England, 1804–1877 1 9 György Kepes Gift of A. Michael Noll United States, b. 1974 Hungary, 1906–2001, AC1998.105.1 Santa Lucia, Naples, c. 1846 Double ( 6), 2007–9 active United States One of the earliest computer-generated photo- Salt prints from two paper negatives Dye coupler print, unique graphic works, this image was created by a The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, Untitled, 1948 Gift of the artist program written by A. Michael Noll while at Bell gift of the Annenberg Foundation and Carol M.2009.143.4 Gelatin silver print Labs in New Jersey. Vernon and Robert Turbin Ralph M. Parsons Fund Using imminently obsolete scanners as his M.2008.40.1113a–b M.88.174.2 lens, Phil Chang exposes various types of Combining two negatives to complete his photographic paper to the unique A , a form of cameraless photography, vision, Calvert Richard Jones expanded the of each machine. is created when objects are placed directly onto notion of one negative equaling one unique light-sensitive paper. photographic print.