"Baltz, Becher, Ruscha"

The show brings together three seminal photo projects from the 1960s and ’70s, documenting man-altered landscapes with a dispassionate, Conceptualist eye. Ed Ruscha's famed "Gasoline Stations" portfolio is here, along with Bernd and Hilla Becher's "Water Towers" and Lewis Baltz's "New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California." All three series dispense with capturing a sense of place, choosing instead to concentrate on seemingly interchangeable structures. These images not only created a photographic analog for Minimalism's repeating forms, but also represented some of the earliest appreciations of late capitalism's impact on the environment.