Louise Alexander Gallery/AFP is pleased to participate in Paris Photo 2021 (11-14 November 2021) with a presentation of photographs by John Divola, featuring some of his most important series: "Zuma" (1977-1978), Chroma (1983-86), "Dogs chasing my car in the desert" (1996-1998) and "As far as I could get" (1996-1997) Chroma (1983-86) [from the interview by David Campany] Immediately after Zuma I made some rather straightforward photographs of the abandoned MGM Studios New York City back lot, in Culver City, Los Angeles. These were in black and white. I then decided to try something entirely different and around 1980 I started a body of work about things you can’t photograph: Gravity, Magnetism, which way water drains, and the things I see when I press my eyes with the palms of my hands. All of these images required the construction of some kind of visual metaphor. [...] At the same time, I was switching from color negative that I was using for Zuma to large format color transparency. I had become aware that the early C-type color prints faded badly and was trying to use a new, more stable material. This was Cibachrome, which printed from transparencies. It was very industrial and artificial, with deep color saturation and contrast. It was a very flawed material for conventional images but with unique properties that I ended up embracing for the Chroma images. Artworks from “Zuma” series © John Divola 2021 Courtesy of Louise Alexander Gallery #parisphoto #johndivola #louisealexandergallery #afprojects