OPENING RECEPTION: 1st THURSDAY, JANUARY 2nd  |  FROM 5-8pm

Sullivan Goss Gallery is excited to announce its first photography exhibition in nearly 20 years. For this special occasion we have curated a show consisting of a diverse group of images from the collection of Peter Fetterman, one of LA’s most respected photography dealers. From Peter’s extensive inventory, we have selected a group of photographs that share a singular powerful quality - to inspire joy. 

Peter’s recently published book The Power of Photography (2022) served as an inspiration for the show, and is a wonderful resource for both new and seasoned collectors of photography. During the COVID lockdown, with no way to bring collectors into his gallery, Peter ‘exhibited’ one photograph per day via his email list, usually accompanied by quotes from the artist and Peter’s personal anecdotes or explanations about why he found this particular image so compelling. The Power of Photography presents 120 outstanding images from the series (which now numbers more than 1500 entries and counting), along with Peter’s insightful words.

Some of the photographs capture serene moments of natural beauty, others the unbridled excitement of a roller coaster. Some of these photographs depict an icon from the world of music or fashion, or a playful young boy pretending to be an astronaut, but each image is a moment frozen in time, allowing us to witness the past firsthand. Do you want to see the expressions on the faces of Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman as they watched Ella Fitzgerald on stage in 1948? A photograph can put you there.  Photographs have the power to preserve moments of magical serendipity that are truly sublime.