Takin it to the Streets: Pirkle Jones & Robert von Sternberg

Pirkle Jones was a documentary photographer who captured some of California’s most important social movements and events during his photography career spanning six decades. Pirkle explored California’s landscape, politics, and its people with an eye of an artist and a witness.

Robert von Sternberg is a contemporary documentary photographer who has lived and worked in Los Angeles for the past 50 years. In his photographs, Robert von Sternberg explores man’s intrusion on nature without photographing humans at all. Instead, he captures man’s impact on the environment through what we leave behind. Signs, buildings, monuments, and other man made materials show our impact on the earth, even without our immediate presence.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.