Karen Halverson: Mulholland
Karen Halverson first encountered Mulholland Drive not in Los Angeles, but at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — standing before David Hockney's 20-foot painting of the road that would later become her obsession. After moving to the city, she began photographing the full 52-mile stretch herself, from the Pacific Ocean to Hollywood, likening the ever-shifting scenery along the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains to watching a film full of jump cuts.
Presented in a horizontal format that mirrors the sweeping breadth of the landscape, Halverson's panoramic photographs carry a soft, sun-dried quality that feels quintessentially Californian — capturing the strange beauty of a road where natural wilderness and manmade myth exist side by side. A portrait of a city told through one of its most iconic veins.
