© Robbert Flick
Currently not on view
Along Speedway; Looking West between Via Verde and Washington,
2002
Robbert Flick, born 1939, Amersfoort, Holland; active Los Angeles, CA
2002-225
In the 1980s, Flick began photographing series of images, later called "Sequential Views," which he laid out in systematic grids that echoed the grids of city streets. In the 1990s, Flick replaced this approach: he created photographs from one long, continuous video shot from the driver’s-side window of a van he drove down various boulevards in Los Angeles. The result is a disengaged view of the city that represents the random sights that a real driver would experience. Flick explains that by "tracing these trajectories and parallel passages through Los Angeles, the evolution and changing demographics of the metropolis are revealed."
Information
Title
Along Speedway; Looking West between Via Verde and Washington
Dates
2002
Maker
Medium
Ilfochrome print
Dimensions
image: 73 × 110 cm (28 3/4 × 43 5/16 in.)
sheet: 92.3 × 127 cm (36 5/16 × 50 in.)
frame: 95 × 129.8 × 3.9 cm (37 3/8 × 51 1/8 × 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, gift of the artist
Object Number
2002-225
Place Depicted
North America, United States, California, Los Angeles
Inscription
Inscribed in ink, verso lower left corner: (sv 9704031)
Inscribed in ink, verso lower center: “along Speedway; Looking West between Via Verde and Washington”
Signed, dated, and numbered in ink, verso lower right corner: Robbert Flick, April 2002 ed 1//5
Culture
Techniques
Subject
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2002," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 62 (2003): p. 107-161., p. 137
- Joel Smith, "More than One: Sources of Serialism," in "More than One: Photographs in Sequence," special issue, Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 67 (2008): 8–29., p. 15, fig. 14
