Susan Ressler
A selection from "Executive Order," photographs I made in the boardrooms, offices and lobbies of corporate America in the late 1970s, mostly in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. The sunbelt was exploding and so was corporate excess. This work will be published for the first time by Daylight Books...
A selection from "Executive Order," photographs I made in the boardrooms, offices and lobbies of corporate America in the late 1970s, mostly in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. The sunbelt was exploding and so was corporate excess. This work will be published for the first time by Daylight Books in Spring 2018. Why now, 40 years later? Because once again, in the era of Trump, we face the dangers that ensue when corporations are deregulated and when profits "trump" people. Visualized to emphasize cool geometric sterility, these photographs critique the underlying social structures enabling wealth and power. They do so with irony, empathy and insight. Some of these images were part of a 1979-80 NEA Survey, "The Los Angeles Documentary Project," that has been collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. But most have not been published or exhibited until now.
Treed, from Executive Order, 1978
Columbia Savings and Loan, from Executive Order, 1978
Bank of America, from Executive Order, 1978
The Capital Group, Inc., from Executive Order, 1979-80
Filmways, Inc., from Executive Order, 1979
Northrop, Corp., from Executive Order, 1979-80
White Blazer, from Executive Order, 1978
Steelcase, from Executive Order, 1979-80
Reflected, from Executive Order, 1978
Atlantic Richfield, from Executive Order, 1979-80
