Los Angeles Times: Cut, folded, pasted: Photography takes a twist and turn in the Getty’s ‘Paper Play’

“Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography,” a delightful teaser of a show at the Getty Museum, divides neatly into two complementary halves.

Daniel Gordon, Clementines, 2011. 29.8 x 37.5 in.

The most engrossing piece in this first section is Daniel Gordon's Clementines (2011), a tabletop still life with a charismatically funky sense of space. Gordon fills a crumpled paper basket with the fruit of his hands, scissors and internet searches. He sets these little orbs with patchwork photographic skins against a background that poses multiple-choice options for defining place. This glorious ode to the unsettled nature of two-dimensional representation is what Cezanne might have made, had he used Photoshop.