Henry Wessel: A Dark Thread @ Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris

Henry Wessel Incident No.6 De la série Incidents, 2012 © Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel Incidents No.2 De la série Incidents, 2012 © Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel Incidents No.5 De la série Incidents, 2012 © Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel Incident No.21 De la série Incidents, 2012 © Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel Nevada, 1975 © Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel, San Francisco, 1974
© Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel, Pasadena, California, 1974
© Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel, Incidents No.27, De la série Incidents, 2012 © Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel, Waikiki No.12, 1983 © Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel, California, 1977 © Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Night Walk No. 5, 1998, De la série Sunset Park
© Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Night Walk No.21, 1998, De la série Sunset Park
© Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Henry Wessel, Santa Monica, California, 1989
© Henry Wessel; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

For five decades, Henry Wessel documented intensifying elements of the uncanny present in scenes of everyday life. As an avid fan of film noir and detective fiction, Wessel arranged his images in sequences like storyboards for films so that viewers could try to make connections and imagine stories between pictures that may have been taken years apart. The prolific photographer worked primarily in black and white, developing his own prints with a characteristic soft silver tone. Henry Wessel created an interpretive, mysterious vision of the places he lived in and visited, with a “dark thread” connecting his photographs to one another.

Henry Wessel: A Dark Thread is on view through August 25 at Maison Européenne de la Photographie 5/7 Rue de Fourcy, Paris, France. photographs courtesy of Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Zoe Crosher's "Sunlight as Spotlight" Opens @ Patrick Painter In Los Angeles

Zoe Crosher, enamored by Los Angeles, has an obsession that began during her time receiving her MFA from CalArts. Here, she has reimagined her “Day for Night” photographic works. In “Day for Night,” Crosher uses a photography technique used during the Film Noir days of Hollywood, by shooting images in such a way that they look like they were taken at night. She documents the disappearance of the Los Angeles River, using the sunlight to spotlight the image in frame. For this show, she has taken that process a step further and made light boxes out of the photographs, further emulating the film-like aspect by placing light behind the image, creating, in essence, a single-shot movie. Sunlight as Spotlight is on view through November 24 at Patrick Painter B2, 4031, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica.