Los Angeles Without Boundaries by Peter Baker, 2024

“These pictures were made in downtown Los Angeles in 2020-21 when the city was more or less shutdown. It was not my intention to photograph in response to the pandemic.

I had been making a larger body of work for several years focussed on what I saw as the socio-spatial schism of the city. The municipal, financial & entertainment districts of downtown LA are often mirages of privately owned sidewalks, pedestrian bridges & plazas presenting themselves as public space. With that in mind I was drawn to the idea of the city itself as a kind of image, one in constant tension with the reality of everyday life playing out within its domain…”

Born in 1981, Peter Baker is a photographer from The Bronx, New York. He received a BA in Literature & Photography from SUNY Purchase in 2005, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. He has designed and taught courses at the International Center of Photography in New York and has been a contributing writer for American Suburb X and Der Greif. His commissioned work has been published in The New York Times & Architectural Digest. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles. 

Editor - Kris Graves
Design - Luminosity Lab

7 x 8.5" softcover, tri-tone and 4-color offset
64 pages
First Edition
Limited edition to 300 copies
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ISBN: 9781954877160

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*This book is part of our series LOST IV, which includes:
Anthem by Oji Haynes
Black Snafu by Andre Ramos-Woodard
Blood on the Ballast by Marshall Scheuttle
Breathless by Richard Renaldi
El Inquilino Mexico City by Tom Griggs
Los Angeles Without Boundaries by Peter Baker
Monument by Yoav Horesh
People of the Sun by Melissa Alcena
Shangri La by Melody Melamed
Tell Me About Saigon by Tracy Dong

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