Since the 1960s Los Angeles has been a seminal location for experimental photography. Robert Heinecken’s founding of the photography program at UCLA has not only impacted generations of artists using photography but also set the parameters for the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts’ subsequent collecting in this area. His students and successors—such as Jo Ann Callis, Judy Fiskin, and James Welling—have gone on to teach and influence a younger generation of artists, including Amy Adler.
Drawn from the Hammer Contemporary Collection and the Grunwald Center, Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection looks at the themes of seriality, identity, and place in conceptual photography on the West Coast from the 1960s to the present.
Amy Adler, The Problem Child, 1955. (detail). Six unique silver gelatin prints. 23 × 31 1/8 × 2 3/8 in. (58.4 x 79.1 x 6 cm) (each framed). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Lawrence Barth.