Catherine Wagner’s first photographic series documented the rapid development of California’s cities in the mid-1970s. With a modernist eye and an anthropological mind, Wagner trekked through Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities seeking banal architectural sites for her work. Wagner’s images—not of the beautiful, but of the gritty and the overlooked—are studies of the impersonal spaces being developed in the city, seen with a keen eye and rendered with an engaging visual ambiguity.