Pigment print

50.5 x 66 cm

Born and raised in Southern California, Grey Crawford was one of the first artists from the 1970s generation to use the pho­tographic medium as a concep­tual tool to manipulate his im­ages in the darkroom. Inspired by the basic shapes used by the California hard-edge painters John McLaughlin and Karl Benjamin, Grey Crawford distinguished himself early on from the popular topographers of that era such as Lewis Baltz. He uniquely integrated these geometric forms into his photographs using various masking techniques—learned in his studies at Rochester Institute of Technology—that allowed separate exposures in any areas he selected.