"Executive Order" depicts corporate America in the late 1970s, mostly in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. The sunbelt was exploding and so was corporate excess. Daylight Books published a monograph of this work in Spring 2018. Why 40 years later? Because now, in the post-era of Trump, we face the same dangers that ensue when corporations are deregulated and when profits "trump" people.
As author Mark Rice notes in his essay, "Executive Disorder,"...
more »"Executive Order" depicts corporate America in the late 1970s, mostly in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. The sunbelt was exploding and so was corporate excess. Daylight Books published a monograph of this work in Spring 2018. Why 40 years later? Because now, in the post-era of Trump, we face the same dangers that ensue when corporations are deregulated and when profits "trump" people.
As author Mark Rice notes in his essay, "Executive Disorder," that accompanies my book, the 1970s was "a time of unease and despair, punctuated by disaster" that provides "essential truths about contemporary American life." He adds, "It's all here—upstart technology companies, defense contractors, law firms, financial firms, the film and music industries, and so on, and the economies of power, consumption, and leisure...Ressler's photographs...draw our attention to how we came to be where we are today."
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