Mimi Plumb: “I remember thinking that I wanted to have my voice in the mix”
Until 9 October, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen is showing an exhibition by American photographer Mimi Plumb, who grew up in a sleepy town in California in the early 1950s. Although that state has acquired an almost mythical image in our cultural imagination — partly because of the movies — that image is not so much in line with her own monotonous childhood, in Walnut Creek, just outside San Francisco. A town isolated from intellectual culture, but also from the counter-culture movements of the 1960s. Walnut Creek was inhospitable in a physical sense: scarred, torn and bleached by drought and fire.