You’ve Never Seen the California Coast Like This Before
Laura Plageman Photographs the Pacific, Crumples Up Her Prints, Then Photographs Them Again
A craggy rock emerges in sharp relief out of the ocean. Swarms of birds descend into crashing waves. A blue sky of clouds resembles a crumpled piece of paper, discarded then retrieved. These are some of the striking images in “Response,” an exhibition of photographs by Laura Plageman at the DeSoto Gallery in Venice.
Most of the photos were taken at overlooks on the California coast—popular spots to pull over in the car to snap a photo. Plageman’s take on these views, however, isn’t the sort you could capture on an …
