Whether they’re bored office stiffs, housewives, or disgruntled war vets, the armor-clad members of the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA) like to get beat up the old-fashioned way. Boasting more than 30,000 members worldwide, and over 16 “Kingdoms” in the United States alone, the eclectic eccentrics of the SCA participate in a variety of rigorous medieval battle simulations. Suburban Knights is a series of portraits of these 21st-century warriors, in costume and in character as their knightly alter egos.
From 2003 to 2005, internationally renowned photographer E. F. Kitchen photographed and interviewed the fighters of the SCA on location at their battles. Kitchen’s unique approach dispensed with technologically sophisticated cameras, and she instead used a tripod-mounted, 8 x 10 bellows camera with exclusively handmade and antique lenses. The results are appropriately hoary, sepia-tone images of these fierce warriors lost in time.
PowerHouse Books is having an exhibition of her work in Brooklyn currently but tonight, E.F. Kitchen will be at LACMA's bookstore, Art Catalogues in talk with Leo Braudy, author of "From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity". Drink and appetizers will be served, runs from 5 pm to 7 pm tonight. Free.
Art Catalogues
LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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