Andrew Bush
Cover for Issue 295
Los Angeles
Issue 295 October 21, 2008

Andrew Bush uses photography to document and examine the line between public and private space.

In the early '80s, he produced a series of photographs showing the rooms and possessions of a family who for generations occupied an early-18th-century Georgian house in Ireland. That series became the book Bonnettstown. In Los Angeles in 1987, he began photographing drivers encapsulated in the privacy of their cars. Many photographs from that series were recently published as the book Drive. He has produced photographs of ephemera — envelopes, business cards, and money, among other things — to highlight identity and desire at the boundary of exchange. In another series, he made portraits of people emerging from flea markets, purchases in hand, showing how narratives can be shaped through material possessions.

In his most recent explorations of public and private space, he pairs his photographs to create conceptual oppositions and conundrums: for example, he photographed sections of the personal libraries of philosophers Jacques Derrida and John Searle, and uses aerial views and close-ups of plants in Southern California wildfire areas to create A Terrorist's Guide to Nature.

Andrew Bush was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1956, and earned a BA from Pomona College and an MFA from Yale University. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

In April/May 2009, Vector Portraits will be shown at Julie Saul Gallery and Yossi Milo Gallery.

Andrew Bush
Woman waiting to proceed south at Sunset and Highland boulevards, Los Angeles, at approximately 11:59 a.m. one day in February 1997
Courtesy the artist

 

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