Entrada Drive, Pacific Palisades/Santa Monica
1995, printed 1996
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View on museum website →Medium
platinum/palladium print
Dimensions
image: 26 × 34.1 cm (10 1/4 × 13 7/16 in.) sheet: 35.2 × 42.5 cm (13 7/8 × 16 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.154
Art Historical Context
**Entrada Drive, Pacific Palisades/Santa Monica** (1995, printed 1996) by Madoka Takagi invites viewers into the sun-drenched allure of Southern California's coastal suburbs. This platinum/palladium print captures the essence of Entrada Drive, a winding road in the elegant Pacific Palisades area near Santa Monica, evoking mid-1990s West Coast tranquility amid palm-lined vistas and ocean proximity. Takagi's choice of subject highlights everyday American landscapes, transforming a familiar locale into a serene visual poem. The medium—platinum/palladium print—is a nod to 19th-century photographi...
About the Artist
Madoka Takagi
**Madoka Takagi (1956–2015)** was a Japanese-American photographer renowned for her exquisite palladium and platinum prints capturing the quiet poetry of American urban landscapes. Born in 1956 in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, into the first postwar generation, she graduated from art school with a focus on printmaking before transitioning to photography, a shift that carried forward her fascination wi...