Silver See: A Portfolio of Photography from Los Angeles
Second floor gallery, Bladen Art Museum
July 17- March 8, 2008
"We're all in L.A., and for better or for worse, our experience of the city feeds our art, and the art feeds our experience of the city ... One of Los Angeles' myths is that photography, via the motion picture, helped build our town. Now it seems that L.A. is returning the favor."
Created under the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Silver See was produced in an edition of forty-five portfolios in 1977. Organized by photographer Victor Landweber, Chairman of the LACPS Portfolio Committee and University of Iowa alum, the portfolio represents work from twenty-one photographers in Los Angeles.
This portfolio represents a distinct moment in time, not only for the city, but also for the photographers, many of whom have moved on stylistically or physically from their early years here. Significant photographers in the exhibit include Robert Heinecken, Judith Golden, and Marion Palfi.
Of the original forty-five editions, only two dozen were offered for sale and the remaining twenty-one portfolios were given to the participating photographers.
The Blanden's edition first belonged to photographer Robert von Sternberg, and was donated by the Doan Family Foundation in 2004. This is the first time that the Blanden has exhibited Silver See to the public.
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