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Paul Grund - Damaged _alt_Jean-Vincent Simonet – Of Voices And Herbs or Italian drizzle softly fallingIn Damaged, Paul Grund turns his lens toward Los Angeles, not as the dream factory or cinematic backdrop, but as a city already destroyed. Echoing photographer Lewis Baltz's bleak observation that Los Angeles "has already been destroyed, then left standing as a warning," the work resists the smooth mythology that usually defines it. Grund's camera moves through a fractured landscape of walls, overpasses, and indifferent geometry, exposing a city built