Central Coast. Half-way between LA and SF. On the Dharma Road. Jack Kerouac. On the Road. 101. The perfect slot. Not a fly-over, but formerly a drive-through. Now it is destination of beautiful coast, arts and wineries. Now people are living here. They are paying attention. It is a perfect 36 hours….or more.
Richard Ross is a photographer, researcher and professor of art based in Santa Barbara, California. Ross was awarded both Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. Ross has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Annie E. Casey and MacArthur Foundations.
Ross's work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London; Aperture Gallery, New York; ACME Gallery, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; J. Paul Getty Museum and National Building Museum, Washington D.C. He was the principal photographer for the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Museum on many of their architectural projects. He has photographed extensively for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, SF Examiner, Vogue, COLORS, Time, Newsweek, Le Monde and many more. A dozen books of his work have been published including Girls in Justice 2015, Juvenile in Justice 2012, Architecture of Authority (Aperture 2007), Waiting for the End of the World (Princeton Architectural Press 2005), Gathering Light (University of New Mexico 2001) and Museology (Aperture 1988). Ross is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1977.
Represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York
