Finding Bones

Finding Bones introduces a newly rediscovered body of work by Grey Crawford. It's an anthology of photographs that embody the creative spirit that was prevalent throughout the Los Angeles art scene at the time. Southern California in the early 1970s was an island of its own creation: a mixture of surf, sea, and concrete highways winding around an ever-changing cultural climate, it challenged assumptions of the definition of art. Crawford chooses his backgrounds with a sense of austerity as a means for introducing these hard-edged shapes and using them as the building blocks for his own language.

Grey Crawford is a Los Angeles based fine art and architecture photographer.

Timothy Persons is the founder and director of Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, where he lives and works. He is also adjunct Professor at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland.

Lyle Rexer is a writer; critic; curator; columnist,on photography. His publications include The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography; Jonathan Lerman: The Drawings of An Artist with Autism; How to Look At Outsider Art; Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes; Raw Vision; Art in America; Aperture; The New York Times; Modern Painters; Parkett; Tate. He is teaching at the School of Visual Arts, New York.