Laurence Miller Gallery will present work by Louis Baltz William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Toshio Shibata, Aaron Siskind, Lalla Essaydi, Stephane Couturier and Jerry Uelsmann, along with NASA/US Geological Survey photographs of the moon, in a group show entitled SURFACE, May 5 through June 30, 2005. Though united by the common theme of “surface,” it is what lies beneath this concept that makes the show so intriguing.

Harry Callahan’s Chicago, 1950, a horizonless landscape consisting solely of randomly scattered leaves, contrasts greatly with the very ordered collage that is the NASA moonshot; Toshio Shibata’s three platinum prints of the Grand Coulee Dam describe a time-lapse sequence and in essence freezes time, whereas Walker Evan’s Grave, 1936, reveals two elements of time-- that a child has died too young, and that the burial was recent.  Peeling paint and tattered paper in two abstractions by Aaron Siskind are evidence of the effect of the ravages of time, and similar markings in graffiti photographs by Helen Levitt show how photography can capture a moment in time that nature can erase even more quickly. Finally, in De Bijenkorf, Den Haag, Netherlands by Stephane Couturier, the elegant beauty that a certain time of day bestows on a building façade reminds us that the surface of things can be so much more than it seems.

Stéphane Couturier
Den Haag, De Bijenkorf #1
Netherlands, 2003
55 x 44 " Ilfoflex C-print, Edition 5

Frederick Sommer
Dürer Variation, 1966
14 x 11" gelatin silver print
Signed on mount, printed 1980's

Jerry Uelsmann
Untitled, 1993
20 x 16" gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso

Lalla Essaydi
Converging Territories #10, 2002
33 1/4 x 40 3/4" C-print, edition 15

Walker Evans
Child's Grave, Hale Co., AL, 1936
7 x 9" gelatin silver print
stamped on verso

William Eggleston
Untitled (weeds in sand), 1983-86
16 x 20" C-print, Edition 3

Toshio Shibata
Grand Coulee Dam (p.17)
Douglas County,  WA, 1996
11 3/4 x 14 3/4" platinum print
Edition 20

Toshio Shibata
Grand Coulee Dam (p.15)
Douglas County,  WA, 1996
11 3/4 x 14 3/4" platinum print
Edition 20

Toshio Shibata
Grand Coulee Dam (p.13)
Douglas County,  WA, 1996
11 3/4 x 14 3/4" platinum print
Edition 20

Helen Levitt
New York, c.1939
40 x 30" silver print, Edition 7
Printed 1999

Aaron Siskind
Chicago, 1948
24 x 20" gelatin silver print
Signed recto

Aaron Siskind
New York, 1951
24 x 20" gelatin silver print
Signed recto

Harry Callahan
Chicago, 1950  
8 x 10" gelatin silver print
Printed 1970's, signed recto

Lee Friedlander
Southern United States, 1966
11 x 14" gelatin silver print
Signed and stamped verso
Printed 1970's

Louis Baltz
Mountain View, CA, 1973
8 x 10" gelatin silver print
Mounted 14 x 17"