When Marcia Hafif returned home to her Pomona, California suburb after a decade of living abroad she found that her childhood home had been demolished. In an exercise to recreate memories of the place, Hafif photographed other houses in the neighborhood, of which a selection are collected in this book.
Similar in format, style and subject matter to Ed Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Pomona Houses was published several years afterward to accompany an exhibition at Ivan Karp Gallery in New York. Hafif, whose oeuvre is largely painting, has said that she didn’t know of Ruscha’s work at the time of photographing the series, and that it was Ivan Karp who designed and produced the book.
From the library of writer and critic Edit DeAK.