Marjorie Salvaterra (6/1)

Salvaterra’s photographs pack a powerful dramatic punch, revealing “a fine line between sanity and insanity,” according to Virginia Heckert, Associate Curator of Photography at The Getty Center. “I've always been fascinated by human psychology,” says Salvaterra. “When most girls were reading Judy Blume, I was reading the DSM. It lists all the psychological disorders and their symptoms. Diagnosis is made on the number of symptoms. And yet, it is easy to go through the list of symptoms for the various disorders and think, ‘that could be me.’ Are we all a little crazy -- at least at certain moments in our lives? Is it nurture vs. nature? Some believe people are either born sane or insane. Others believe we are all born perfect and it's the things that happen in our lives that damage us. I tend to believe the latter. In each portrait, I am looking for that line in each person: the part of ourselves that we tend to hide, the part that scares us, the part that is usually saved for the people closest to us - the ones that know our secrets.”

Opening Reception Wednesday June 1, 2011 6-9 pm

Clark | Oshin Gallery @ The Icon
5450 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Race, Sex, & Tattoos: The Kip Fulbeck Experience + Book Signing (6/2)

Filmmaker and artist, Kip Fulbeck, traveled the country photographing individuals and having them hand-write their responses to the question "What are you?" In this multimedia performance, he shares these images and the stories behind them, weaving together spoken word, film, photography, and pop culture to explore multiracial identity, tattoo culture, and contemporary America. Fulbeck is the author of several books including Part Asian, 100% Hapa; Permanence: Tattoo Portraits; and Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids as well as the director of a dozen short films.

Today Show : Kip Fulbeck on his book "Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids"


CNN : Kip Fulbeck on his book "The Hapa Project"

Thursday June 2, 2011 7-9 pm

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
653 Paseo Nuevo, Paseo Nuevo Mall Upper Arts Terrace
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

APA/LA "Keep Your Clients Coming Back w/ Maria Piscopo"

Based on Maria Piscopo's 4th edition of her book, The Photographer's Guide to Marketing & Self-Promotion, this program has been updated for today's new client. You probably have found they are harder to find and more difficult to keep! Maria's new marketplace "overview" will give you the information you need to find and keep clients. Her techniques are specific, efficient and cost-effective for every area of photography.

Topics include:
* identifying your direction and updating your marketing message
* dealing better with voice mail
* "no-fail" selling scripts
* using new follow-up techniques to give you a competitive edge
* increasing your awareness of whatclients really want
* improving response to your print and web marketing
* three "keep in touch" ideas to put to work right away.

This workshop will give you an unbeatable edge over your competition. Even experienced professionals will get new ideas!

APA members are free so RSVP at director@apa-la.com. Non-members $20 and click here.

June 1st, 2011 6-9pm

Smashbox
8549 Higuera St
Culver City CA 90232

Bert Stern's "Jazz on A Summer's Day"

In 1958, fashion photographer Bert Stern (famous for Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot 'The Last Sitting', six weeks before her death) set out to make a film about the annual Jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island.

He approached his subject as an occasion to prove that music didn't have to be merely recorded; the film making itself could be as artful as the onstage sound. So the movie is itself a piece of jazz; in the first half of the film, the camera often wanders away from the stage to fixate on the crowd and the boats in the America's Cup yacht races, thus creating a great time capsule.

Fielding five cameras simultaneously, some handheld and some with telephoto lenses, and using the finest Kodak positive-reversal color film, Stern captured brilliant images that, as he said 'just jumped off the screen'. Usually jazz films are all black and white, kind of depressing and in little downstairs nightclubs. This brought jazz out into the sun. It was different.'

Vintage Los Angeles

Los Angeles city hall 1953


Los Angeles High class of 1902


May Company under construction in 1939. Fairfax and Wilshire.

There's a Facebook group called Vintage Los Angeles that's a collection of reader submitted images and videos celebrating Los Angeles. I enjoy reading other Facebook user's images and their recollection. The page is run by Alison Martino and GOOD Magazine posted about her site a few months ago.

(via @Beate Chelette)

Zack Herrera "Stripland Nights"

Los Angeles at night by Jack Herrera

Events this Weekend

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John Van Hamersveld "TV Life" opening reception 6-9 pm @ The Perfect Exposure Gallery 3519 W 6th St. 90020

Tracing John's experiences and development as a prolific artist, the inspirational exhibit includes photographs from his early years as an art student at Chouinard/Cal Art, which occurred just after he had designed the successful iconic film poster for The Endless Summer. The exhibit also consists of photographs taken by John during his experiences working as a graphic designer at Capitol Records, traveling between Los Angeles and New York in the Art & Entertainment business, and creating art in his popular Los Angeles studio.

+ PechaKucha #27 @ Moore's Deli 271 E. Orange Grove Avenue Burbank, CA 91502

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Come join Behance / AIGA LA and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture & Urban Design for PechaKucha #27: BLINK. Featuring the diversity of graphic design in Los Angeles. 20 images x 20 seconds. Each presentation lasts 6 minutes with 12 presenters.

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+ Michael Kirchoff "An Enduring Grace" Closing Reception & Artist Talk 6:30 - 10 pm @ Wildfire 640 S. San Vicente Blvd. (@ Wilshire Blvd.) Los Angeles, California 90048. Artist Talk at 7:30 pm

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+ Professional Speaker Series 10 am to 2 pm @ San Diego City College City College, Auditorium 1081 16th Street, San Diego, CA 92101. Schedule speakers : Tony L. Corbell "The Power Of Light in The Digital World" and William Morton "Color Calibrations" Tickets




+ Peter Bussian "The Afghans: Pictures of Resilience, 2001 – 2011" opening reception 5-9 pm @ Gallery 169 169 West Channel Road, Santa Monica CA 90402



+ Brian Skerry "Ocean Wild" opening reception 6:30 - 9:00 pm @ The G2 Gallery1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Venice, CA 90291

Femininity, Feminism and My Work : An Evening with Jill Greenberg (6/2)

For her senior thesis at the Rhode Island School of Design, photographer Jill Greenberg created a multimedia presentation called “The Female Object,” a project wherein she argued that the panoptical male gaze has become fully incorporated into female consciousness. Her “End Times” series drew on the raw distress of crying children as a means to illustrate the macabre ethos of fundamentalist Christianity and its impact on domestic and foreign policy alike.

Greenberg’s newest set of photographs, “Glass Ceiling,” features members of the United States Olympic Synchronized Swim Team in the reasonable setting of a pool but with the unreasonable addition of high heels. The images focus on the interrelated themes of femininity, the marketplace and the uncomfortable implications of a world in which the former remains a commodity to be sold within the latter.

Tickets are free and become available tomorrow at 9:30 am here

Thursday, June 02, 2011 from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

The Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067

TONIGHT : Olivier Zahm "The Secret of Photographing Women" opening

Love it or hate it, Olivier Zahm's photographs of women on Purple Diary have become a phenomenon, keeping blog subscriber numbers high and giving everyone an insight into the Purple Magazine founder's personal life. If you're one of the people who love it, you'll be glad to hear that the Parisian editor's point-and-shoot work will be going on show at Leadapron in a show called "The Secrets of Photographing Women".

The show will be running from 26 May through 12 June, 2011.
Opening is tonight.

Leadapron
8445 Melrose Place
Los Angeles CA 90069

TONIGHT : Open Show Los Angeles

Leopoldo Pena "On Broadway"

Thomas Johnson "Lakewood"

Charlie Chipman "Los Angeles Sidewalks"

John Eder Florida House"

Open Show is a FREE monthly social mixer and screening event of compelling work by photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers in a high-profile space. The Forge is one of the few, unique, creative work spaces available to the greater Los Angeles area. The studio sits comfortably northeast of downtown L.A, less than a mile from Chinatown.

Tonight 7:30-9:30 pm

The Forge LA
636 Huron St.
Los Angeles, Ca 90065

Elliott Erwitt "Personal Best"

Elliott loves dogs, beaches, nudists and religion as "interesting photographic topics." Explaining why he has to do books, he says, "I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead."

Photo Radio

There's a cool site called Photo Radio blog where Lauren Henkin runs focusing on the advancement of fine art photography by interviewing photographers, curators, and educators. Recent interviewee include Melanie McWhorter, Book Division manager of Photo-Eye, Cat Gwynn, and David Bram.

Great resource and good for listening while you're working at your computer.

John Van Hamersveld "TV Life" (5/26)

Renowned multidisciplinary artist - graphic designer and fine art photographer - John Van Hamersveld will exhibit a special collection of his photography at Los Angeles' Perfect Exposure Gallery, opening on Thursday, May 26th.

This exciting collection brings together 34 prints of John's street photography, covering the 22 year period in his life from 1965 to 1987.

Opening reception 6-9 pm Thursday May 26, 2011

The Perfect Exposure Gallery
3519 West 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90020

Darren's Great Big Camera

This short documentary follows Darren as he ventures out to San Francisco's Lands End to try his giant homemade camera out. It shoots on 14×36-inch negatives! This is the ultimate application of a DIY mind.

Follow Darren's (mis)adventure as he builds a giant camera that uses x-ray film. You can also see photos he's taken with his camera on his blog titled simply "Darren's Great Big Camera"

"I don't want to sound cliche but there is no box. The proverbial box, as it is, is all manufactured limits placed by us or others. If you spend your time thinking that you need to work outside the box then I think all you'll see is the box. You'll judge yourself by the box and whether you thought far enough outside of it or not. You'll end up over thinking the simple and under valuing your instincts."

- Scott Lewis (via)

Events this Weekend

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+ Art Night Pasadena 6-10 pm @ various locations in Pasadena. Participating venues include : Alliance Française de Pasadena, Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center, Lineage Performing Art Center, Pacific Asia Museum, One Colorado, Pasadena Museum of California Art among others. Free shuttle service, bike tours, and of course, food trucks :)


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+ "beauty CULTure" opens today 11 am - 6 pm @ Annenberg Space for Photography and runs till Nov. 27, 2011.

BEAUTY CULTURE presents diverse viewpoints on beauty as it has evolved through the 20th and 21st centuries. These viewpoints are at times challenging, daring and controversial. Ultimately, the exhibition illustrates the power of the still image in shaping cultural ideals and expectations of feminine beauty – and photography’s undeniable influence on conceptions of the Self.

+ LomoJourney to the Huntington Botanical Gardens noon to 4 pm. Cost of $30 per participant includes a loaner camera, 2 rolls of film, a seat on the chartered bus, and entrance to the Huntington Botanical Gardens. . Meet at Lomography Portrait Store noon @ Lomography Gallery Store LA 7998 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood, CA 90046


+ " Face to Face: Portraits from the Bank of America Collection " opening reception 3:30-5:00 pm @ Museum of Photographic Arts 1649 El Prado San Diego, CA 92101

Face to Face explores one of the largest corporate collections of photography in the United States, illuminating the rich historical diversity of photographic portraiture. Curated from one of the leading corporate collections, Face to Face includes some of the earliest techniques, including a salt paper print from the 1840s by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, and a half-plate daguerreotype by Albert Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes. Other works include portraits by masters of the medium such as Yousuf Karsh, Lisette Model, Tina Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Walker Evans and Richard Avedon.

+ "Ward of the State" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Rivera and Rivera 454 N. Robertson Blvd West Hollywood, CA 90069

Ranging from the 1980s to the present, Ward of the State will feature paintings, photographs, and works in other media based on Tony Ward’s role as a visual icon. Through their respective mediums, each artist communicates a different facet of a man not easily defined. As a collective work of art, Ward of the State reveals Ward as the embodiment of ideals of masculinity, beauty, brutality, fashion, and sexual ambiguity.

+ Anthony Lepore " New Wilderness" opening reception 6-8 pm @ M+B 612 North Almont Drive West Hollywood, CA 90069 as well as Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2600 La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 6-9 pm. Two-fer !

As the title suggests, Lepore’s images recast the wild as it is restaged in the low-budget theater that is the visitor center. These spaces are the vestibules to wilderness—indoor recreations intended to instruct the newcomer on the open spaces they border, asking only that they walk the distance of the parking lot. By reframing these displays, which usually incorporate other photographs, these images also reflect on our predominant way of experiencing nature—through photography.

+ Ori Gersht "Falling Petals" opening reception 6-8pm @ Angles Gallery 2754 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034. Artist talk at 4:30 pm



+ 32nd Annual Student Photography Show opening reception 6-8 pm @ Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery / Santa Monica College (Madison Campus) at Santa Monica Blvd and 11th.


+ Marco Brambilla "The Dark Lining" opening reception 6-9 pm @ Santa Monica Museum of Art 2525 Michigan Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90404

The Dark Lining, Marco Brambilla’s first solo museum exhibition, features seven major time-based works from 1999 to the present. Brambilla’s oeuvre consists of complex video installations. Much of his work comprises found film footage edited, layered, and spliced to create compelling new narratives and stunning visual mosaics. With exquisite technical production and seamless editing, Brambilla’s multi-layered tableaux of interconnecting images and looped video blend into an expansive landscape that forms his hallmark style.

+ Kahn & Selesnick “Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea” opening reception 6-9 pm @ Kopeikin Gallery 2766 South La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, California

“Adrift on the Hourglass Sea” is set on the planet Mars where the artists present a dark and powerful visage of a collapsed civilization on the red planet. Using photo-mosaics of the Martian landscape taken by NASA space rovers (they were recipients of a NASA commission to create work about Mars) and combining them with their own photographs of deserts in Nevada and Utah, the artists present their distinctive brand of sci-fi mysticism.

+ Chris Anthony "A Captured Species" opening reception 8-11 pm @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery 170 S. La Brea Avenue 90036

The photographs in the series were taken with a large-format camera in Big Sur, Sequoia National Forest and Southern California. Anthony uses his 4x5 camera and most of the images are photographed with 150 year old French lenses. The locations are key to providing the necessary context that serves as both juxtaposition and provides a wonderfully or-ganic landscape to the images

Alex Prager getting Lambda C-Prints done. (via A&I Facebook Page)

Feature Shoot Postcard + Business Card Contest

Thought this might be useful to a photographer out there. Click

New York Photo Awards 2011

NYPH posted up videos of selected winners of the Photo Awards 2011. Check their Vimeo page for the others. If you just want to see the list, check here.

"Ward of the State" opening reception (5/21)

RIVERA & RIVERA is pleased to announce Ward of the State: Tony Ward, Artists’ Muse, a group exhibition of works centered on shared muse, Tony Ward. Curated by Robert Standish, the exhibition highlights a diverse collection of images by artists whose lives and careers have at various points been impacted by Ward, as subject, muse and myth.

Ward of the State: Tony Ward, Artists’ Muse includes artwork by Greg Gorman, Steven Klein, Patrick Hoelck, Patrick Martinez, Herb Ritts, Estevan Oriol, RETNA, Tony Ward, Paul Rusconi, Bruce Weber, Robert Standish, Michael Gregg Michaud, Jules Muck, Rick Castro, Christoph Schmidberger, Ray Turner, Maya Mercer and Tony Ward.

Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 6 – 8 p.m.

Rivera + Rivera
454 N. Robertson
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Sam Comen "Lost Hills"

Sam Comen has been working on his personal project "Lost Hills" for a while now. Last year in 2010, he attended Review Santa Fe and since we're lucky enough he lived in Los Angeles, I went over to have a talk about his project as well as any advices for those going to Review Santa Fe.

I originally met Sam at a MOPLA event last month. When I was chosen to attend Review Santa Fe, I figured I should go talk to those who have been in photo portfolio reviews to get an idea of how to prepare myself. This week, I'm posting this interview and I hope to have a few more posted in the next several weeks.

"unfortunately, at this time, we all agree that we are not willing to pay anything for the images as this sets a precedent in a scenario where other photographers have agreed to let their work be used in good faith as a way to promote their entire body of work. i hope you and xxx understand this. if we agree to pay you, then we have to pay everyone whose work gets used and this just drives the budget out of control."


"I would be very grateful if you would sign the attached release form granting me permission to use xxx photographs in my book. A digital version (TIFF, grayscale or adobe1998 RGB, 1400X2100 pixels minimum) can be sent via e-mail. xxx Publishing also requires that these images be accompanied by a color correct print or photo print for accurate reproduction. Including this with the signed release form would be greatly appreciated."

These are excerpts from emails sent to a photographer inquiring about photographs she had taken of a band decades ago.

Am I surprised ? Honestly, no.

APA/LA "Portfolio and Website Review" (6/4)

APA/LA will have a portfolio/website review next month of June 4, 2011. Three 20 minute reviews for $150 (APA memebrs) / $300 (non-members). The reviewers are : Ginnie Assenza, Sherrie Berger, John Sharpe and Andrea Stern. I did notice on APA/LA's Facebook event page, they listed two other Rob Beckon, Sari Row as well as more reviewers TBA.

Full bio available at APA/LA event page.

June 4, 2011 9 am to Noon

Strauss Studios
6442 Santa Monica Blvd.#204
Los Angeles, CA 90038-1513

"A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now" @ Getty

Revolutionary Project juxtaposes Walker Evans's 1933 images from the end of the Gerardo Machado dictatorship with views by contemporary foreign photographers Virginia Beahan (American, b. 1946), Alex Harris (American, b. 1949), and Alexey Titarenko (Russian, b. 1962), who have explored Cuba since the withdrawal of Soviet support in the 1990s. A third section bridging these two eras presents pictures by Cuban photographers who participated in the country’s 1959 Revolution, including Alberto Korda, Perfecto Romero, and Osvaldo Salas.

“The Museum’s collection of Walker Evans prints is the largest in the U.S., but until now, we have not shown his photographs of Cuba,” explains Judith Keller, senior curator of photographs. “This exhibition allows us the opportunity to showcase this body of work, alongside newer work in the collection.”

The Getty's new exhibition starts tomorrow May 17 till October 2, 2011

I stumbled upon this on Tumblr the other day and I swear that this shop used to be on Wilshire Blvd in Miracle Mile. Southside of the street, probably a block down from where the photo lab, The Icon is located. Can anyone confirm this ?

Events This Weekend

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Downtown Art Walk is tonight so here's some events going on for that...



+ W. B. Fontenot @ Ground Floor Gallery 433 S. Spring St. 90013. Part of Downtown Art Walk.

Social Networking as the present-day “Big Brother” is explored in the mixed-media photography by W. B. Fontenot, who is inspired by the “surreal dystopia of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

+ Los Angeles Alleys : The Exhibition + Book Release Party @ Groundworks Coffee 108 W. 2nd St.

+ Other Downtown Art Walk photography-related events - Marc Valesella "Legs" @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts (727 S. Spring) / Phil Stern "Odd Ball" @ Phil Stern Gallery (601 S. Los Angeles) / Susan Silas "eyes wide shut" @ CB1 Gallery (207 W. 5th Street) * note : they close at 6 pm*


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+ LACMA Muse Art Walk 2011 (click photo above to enlarge)


+ Echo Park Art Walk noon to 6 pm in Echo Park, CA :)


+ Richard C. Miller "Portraits" opening reception 4 - 6 pm @ Craig Krull Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3 90404


+ Robert Weingarten "Portraits without People" opening reception @ Craig Krull Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3 90404


+ Patlove Shutterbugs Gallery Show 4 - 8 pm @ Kopeikin Gallery 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd 90034

Help us celebrate our Pablove Shutterbugs graduation on May 14th when we gather at the Kopeikin Gallery for a group show and benefit! Students, families, mentors and friends will walk the red carpet to celebrate the kids’ photographs and enjoy our amazing silent and live auction, great food and beverages, and entertainment for the whole family. Photographs for auction include works by modern master Weegee, as well as more contemporary photographers like Bruce Davidson, David Levinthal, Zoe Crosher, Alia Malley, Lauren Greenfield and others.

+ Oh Snap ! opening reception 5-10 pm @ Thumbprint Gallery 2637 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92104


+ Rinko Kawauchi "Murmuration" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Rose Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave # G5 Santa Monica, CA 90404


+ Mike Spitz "MADHOUSE Portraits of Mental Illness" opening reception 6-11 pm @ f/9 Photography Collective c/o Patina Studios at 5239 Sepulveda Blvd Culver City, CA 90230 *note : you will have to drive down the alley way to reach the gallery*


+ Meghann Riepenhoff "Eluvium" opening reception 7-9 pm @ Duncan Miller Gallery 10959 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90034


+ NELA (Northeast Los Angeles) Gallery Night is tonight 7-10 pm @ various galleries and location in Highland Park, Eagle Rock & Cypress Park. Full details at : http://www.nelaart.com/


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+ Jeff McLane "Effulgence" opening reception 1:30 - 4 pm @ Angels Gate Cultural Center 3601 South Gaffey Street San Pedro, CA 90731


+ Museums of the Arroyo Day

Five museums located along the Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles and Pasadena open their doors free of charge from noon to 5 p.m. There is a full schedule of events, including tours, kid-friendly activities, live performances, and demos for the five facilities, which are The Gamble House, Heritage Square, The Los Angeles Police Society Historical Museum, Lummis Home and Garden, and the Pasadena Museum of History.



( will update as I find more events for this weekend )