Architecture of Authority, Photographs by Richard Ross
Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 22, 7:00–9:00 p.m.

Exhibition on View:
Friday, May 23, 2008–Thursday, July 31, 2008

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
(between 10th and 11th Avenue)
New York, NY
(212) 505-5555

Free and open to the public.

With seemingly limitless access—American photographer Richard Ross has been making unsettling and thought-provoking pictures of architectural spaces that exert power over the individuals within them. These compelling, sometimes disturbing, images are brought together here, on view through July 31st

Toddler classroom, Montessori Center School, Goleta, California

Seventieth Precinct house, New York Police Department, Brooklyn

Booking bench, Los Angeles Police Department, Fifth and Wall Street station

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