Since 1992, Douglas McCulloh has shot photographs and collected stories within precise one quarter-mile-square locations randomly drawn from a 5,151 square grid that covers all of Los Angeles County. McCulloh's project is an extension of the traditions of street photography, social documentary photography, oral history and Surrealist chance operations. As such, it is grounded in some of the century's most powerful conceptual currents.

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