"For six years I have wandered at random across the twelve-hundred-square-miles of Los Angeles, directed by the impersonal hand of chance...."

-- Douglas McCulloh

"McCulloh's documentary photography of L.A. follows in the grand tradition of American street photography derived from the heritage of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand."

-- Jonathan Green

"Who would have imagined that the marvelous in Los Angeles could be found through an artist's Surrealist sampling of the commonplace, the prosaic and the ordinary?"

-- Cynthia Morrill

"Doug McCulloh uses the grid as a way of getting at experiences and stories that have themselves been obscured and marginalized by the new vectors of power...."

-- John M. Ganim

"Doug McCulloh shows us the rich variety of layers in the region, layers of experience, of place, of perception, of wealth, of understanding. "

-- Anthea Hartig

"Ontario Mills and Disneyland create new worlds in which all one's needs can be met, but who can have their needs met is not always clear. "

-- Douglas Eisner

"A Dream: instant community. The real truth is isolation -- these houses seem to set people apart, not bring them together. They hold no social memories."

-- R.W. Lid

"[The] sexualization of MOCA was by no means an isolated phenomenon, for, from its very inception, the new museum was discussed in sexual terms by the city planners, artists, donors, trustees, property developers, architectural historians, and critics who focused on it."

-- Jo-Anne Berelowitz