Swimming Drunk brings together two series by the photographer John Divola—“Zuma Series” (1977–78) and “Daybreak” (2015–2020)—both the result of his engagement with abandoned buildings. Roberta Smith of The New York Times has written that the Zuma photographs are “on their way to becoming classics of their kind.” They were taken in a building on Zuma beach, a space once used as a training base for the local fire department, hence burned and damaged in drills. Over the course of a year, Divola returned to photograph the building, adding his own paint and graffiti. He said of the series, “my acts, my painting, my photographing, my considering, are part of, not separate from, this process of evolution and change.” Divola’s willingness to intervene in a photo and his use of color photography set him apart from other photographers at the time. “Daybreak” is set in an abandoned housing complex at the decommissioned George Air Force Base in Victorville, California, mostly shot at dawn. —Clara Molot