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John Humble, 1317 Cabrillo Avenue, Venice, 1998. (c) John Humble. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Bruce Berman and Lea Russo |
Palm trees are why So. Cal. can't have nice photographs. That was the goof of
John Baldessari's Wrong (1966-68), and it's a subtext of Bruce Berman's newly announced gift of 186 photos to the Getty Museum. Whereas palm trees = paradise in certain Hollywood contexts, the Berman gift includes works by John Humble and William Larson presenting them as disrupters of any sort of decent composition.
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William Larson, Untitled, 1980. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Bruce Berman and Lea Russo |
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William Larson, Untitled, 1980. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Bruce Berman and Lea Russo |
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