Inherent Vice

The photographs for Inherent Vice were made between 1999 and 2009, during which time NASA’s rover on Mars and the Hubble Space Telescope were newly minting the frontier with a level of surrealism that was the inspiration for the book. These photographs reveal visions of the same, inhospitable, alien future here along ordinary sidewalks and parking lots, in churches, offices, living rooms and various institutions, temples, laboratories, airports and retail shops, on rooftops, and at Ground Zero.