Peter & Paul
T
he photographic record of an interior is nominally a
form of journalism, rising, when executed with feeling as
well as technique, to the level of work of art. I am thinking
specifically of works by Robert Polidori, whose images
of Cuban interiors and those in New Orleans, sundered
by Hurricane Katrina, raise both aesthetic and political
consciousness. I think also of the British photographer
Derry Moore, exquisitely patient portraitist—that is the
only word for his art—of The English Room in all its variety
and beauty. Durston Saylor, a younger practitioner of this
strain of photography and accompaniment to the realm
of decorative art, joins their ranks with his new exhibition
at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.
HYLAND
