Susan Ressler
Photography
The Capital Group, Inc.
System Development Corp.
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
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Arroyo Seco, NM
Statement
"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 this work in the Spring 2018. Why 40 years later? Because now, in the era of Trump, we face the same dangers that ensue when corporations are deregulated and when profits "trump" people. To see additional works, such as "Dreaming California: High End, Low End, No End in Sight" (Daylight2023), and portfolios on Israel, Sardinia, and more, please visit my website.
A recent project is a 50-year retrospective book, "Susan Ressler Photographs –– 50 Years: No End in Sight" which launched via Daylight Books in Spring 2025.
Bio
Susan Ressler is an author, educator and documentary art photographer. She has been making photographs for more than 50 years, and her work is in the Smithsonian American Museum of Art, the Library Archives of Canada, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of New Mexico Museum of Art, the Harwood Museum of Art, and many other important collections.
She edited the book "Women Artists of the American West" (McFarland, 2003), a scholarly anthology on under-represented women artists west of the Mississippi. She was Head of the Photography Area at Purdue University, where she taught photographic practice, criticism and history from 1981-2004. Ressler received an MFA in Art from the University of New Mexico in 1988, and she currently resides in Taos, New Mexico.
Media
2-D, Photography
