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Zoe Crosher’s recent series, LA-Like (2004-05) “concentrates her lens on the decidedly photogenic Los Angeles subjects”. Shooting into the sun and ‘burning’ the prints black in post-production, she is interested in merging the poetics with the medium. As Julian Myers writes, “Crosher’s method works through the difficulty of taking pictures of Los Angeles, and what she understands as its resistance to being pictured.” This obsession began with photographing the planes coming into land from each and every motel over the forgotten strip of Century Boulevard surrounding LAX. Out the Window (LAX) (2001-2004) questions how to approach “a place that moves in shifts and perpetual motion, with no real center, no point of concentration?” Her work has been shown internationally in Vancouver, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and New York City. She completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in the Photography and Integrated Media Programs in 2001. She recently edited NTNTNT (2004), a book on net.art, and is anticipating the release of Out the Window (LAX) in winter 2006, including texts by Pico Iyer, Norman Klein and Julian Myers. She is the U.S. Project Manager for Afterall, A Journal of Art Context & Inquiry and is for the moment settled in Los Angeles. The recent inclusion of fragments from the ‘Michelle du Bois’ archive (2004-), a collaboration with New York artist Leslie Grant, furthers her more recent interests in the tensions between the amateur and the professional, the casual snapshot (ruins), the larger-than-life persona and culturally-weighted sexuality. +bio +resume +goggle search (home) +writings +michelle du bois (04-) +la-like (04-) +out the window (lax) (01-04) +one year later (03-) +the santa cruz kids(96-00) +NTNTNT (2004) |