“Denise Scott Brown: Photographs, 1956–1966”

Along with husband and fellow architect Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown wrote Learning From Las Vegas, a game-changing tome which proposed that Sin City’s pop urban landscape of garish signs and casinos pointed a way out of the lock that the International Style had on mid-century architect. Learning was instrumental to ushering in the Postmodern era, in which “less is more” became simply “more.” As part of developing the ideas in the book, Brown took color photos of streetscapes in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, some of which are chockablock with signs, drive-thrus and cars from Detroit’s heyday. Though Brown considered this work to be nothing more than documentation, they rival the work of William Eggelston in their vivid snapshot allure.