Wolfgang Tillmans

Internationally renowned artist Wolfgang Tillmans, the first photographer to win the Turner Prize, talks about his work. University of Brighton 13/10/2010. Posted up by Photoworks

Check out rest of Matthu Placek's series of Terence Koh here.

CURRENTLY : In Focus: The Sky @ The Getty

Untitled (Zuma Series), John Divola, 1977–78

In the fall of 1977, after discovering an abandoned lifeguard headquarters at Zuma Beach, California, John Divola began visiting the site to photograph. Painting the walls, incorporating props, using flash, and depending on the Pacific Ocean and the sky for a dramatic backdrop, he created a series of makeshift scenes.

Currently on exhibit at The Getty is "In Focus : The Sky" until Dec. 4, 2011

Life in a Day

Trailer


Here's Ridley Scott talking about the film a year ago. "Just do it"

"I wanted there to be a unity to this — I wanted it to feel visually, aurally, thematically and emotionally like a movie and not a compilation of clips but actually getting an audience to buy into that when there is such a preconception and prejudice about what YouTube is is another thing." - Kevin Macdonald (director)

Looks awesome ! Opens this Friday here in Los Angeles. Check out the Los Angeles Times' review

Event This Weekend

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+ IRIS Nights : Paul Lange: "Good Light Stories – Nuances, Shadows and Reflections on Seeing" 6:30-8:00 pm @ Annenberg Space for Photography 2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, CA 90067



+ Mark Laita "Amaranthine, Sea and Serpentine" opening reception 7-9 pm @ Fahey/Klein 148 N. La Brea Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036.


+ Rodney Smith "Photographs" opening reception 7-9 pm @ Fahey/Klein 148 N. La Brea Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036



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+ CLOSING : Leroy Grannis "Commemorative Show" @ M+B Gallery 612 North Almont Drive, West Hollywood, CA 90069


+ John Huggins "American Landscapes" opening reception 4-6 pm @ Craig Krull Gallery Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3 Santa Monica, California 90404



+ Sara Jane Boyers "Finding Chinatown" opening reception 4-6 pm @ Craig Krull Gallery Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3 Santa Monica, California 90404


+ William Mackenzie-Smith "Plastic LA - LA seen through the Lens of a Plastic Camera" opening reception 6-9 pm @ Gallery 618E Brewery 618E Moulton Avenue, LA, CA 90031


+ Eric Kroll "Sex Objects to Fetish Girls" opening reception 7-9 pm @ Prism LA 8746 W. Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069

Duncan Miller Projects' "Summer Party" (7/27)

Aline Smithson, Red Nails and Daisies

Tomorrow, Duncan Miller Projects Gallery is hosting a Summer Party from 7-9:30 pm as well as celebrating their new exhibition "Summertime" group show. So if you couldn't make it out to the opening last Thursday, here's your second chance !

Wed. July 27, 2011 7:00-9:30 pm

Duncan Miller Projects
1716 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90404

IRIS Nights - Brian Bowen Smith "What is Beauty?" (8/4)

To Bowen Smith, beauty is simple; you see what you like and then deem it beautiful. Whether he is shooting a supermodel, big celebrity, kids or everyday people, he strives to find the beauty within them, even if they don’t know it’s there. In his lecture, Bowen Smith will present some of his collaborations and discuss why he thinks they are beautiful.

Passes to this free event will be available this Wednesday (noon) and Thursday (9:30 am) for the talk to be held next Thursday Aug 4th @ Annenberg Space for Photography.



August 4, 2011 6:30-8:00 pm

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

Craig Semetko opening reception + book signing (8/4)

After 10 years, I’m still as fascinated with human behavior as ever — I never get tired of people watching people and I can’t imagine I’ll ever stop photographing them. But lately I’ve been exploring faces as a theme more so than behavior — there’s just something fascinating about catching a person’s face while they’re lost in thought. I don’t know how far I’ll go with this, but it seems like a natural offshoot of what I’m doing now.

“Craig Semetko: Street Photography,” @ Phil Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, August 4 – October 1, 2011. Read the interview with Craig on the Lecia blog site here and here

Duffy : The Man Who Shot The Sixties

Duffy together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan is recognized as one of the innovators of “documentary" fashion photography, a style which revolutionized fashion imagery and furthermore the fashion industry. So influential were their images that in 1962 the Sunday Times dubbed Duffy, Bailey & Donovan the “Terrible Trio” and Norman Parkinson further added to their notoriety by naming them "The Black Trinity". Together they dominated the London photographic scene, constantly pushing each other to new heights. Even socially they would spend many hours together talking, living and breathing photography.

Ed2010 Summer Cocktail Mixer (7/26)

Ed2010 is a networking and mentoring organization committed to helping aspiring and junior-level editors reach their dream magazine jobs. We love all the editors, writers, researchers, designers, photographers and everyone else who make things happen. Warm summer nights mean it's time for an Ed 2010 rooftop mixer. Join us near the outdoor bar area of XINO (pronounced Cy-No) restaurant at the Santa Monica Place mall.

More info : Whitney Friedlander (losangeles@ed2010.com).


July 26th, 2011, 7pm

Xino Restaurant
395 Santa Monica Place, Suite 308
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Lee Jeffries

A chance meeting with a young homeless girl in the streets of London changes his artistic approach forever. Lee Jeffries recalls that, initially, he had stolen a photo from this young homeless girl huddled in a sleeping bag. The photographer knew that the young girl had noticed him but his first reaction was to leave. He says that something made him stay and go and discuss with the homeless girl. His perception about the homeless completely changes. They become the subject of his art. The models in his photographs are homeless people that he has met in Europe and in the United States: «Situations arose, and I made an effort to learn to get to know each of the subjects before asking their permission to do their portrait.» From then onwards, his photographs portray his convictions and his compassion to the world.

In The Loupe : Photo News + Opinion

With a combined 75 years of experience in our industry, observing, consulting, teaching, editing, critiquing, opining, and mostly, talking, talking and more talking about photography we thought you would like to… watch. So, we made In The Loupe.

We won’t always agree, we can’t promise that the show will always be SFW, and you might get pissed off at us from time to time. But we do know what we’re talking about, and we love photography. InTheLoupe will have photographer profiles, work we like, work we don’t like, industry event coverage, and reports from the road. There will be interviews with industry legends, and people whose names aren’t big… yet. And we might just vent for a while.

There's gonna be a new web tv show with Stella Kramer, Julie Grahame and Allegra Wilde focusing on the photo industry. According to their website, the first episode will be up at the end of the month.

Events This Weekend

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+ Fuck Pretty : A Photography Exhibit opening reception 6-9 pm @ Robert Berman Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave # C2 Santa Monica, CA 90404-4042 Featuring Anonymous, Sarah Baley, Sally Davies, Tierney Gearon, Sandy Gray, Naomi Harris, Hana Jakrlova, Sharon Johnson-Tennant, Siri Kaur, Gillian Laub , Kristina Loggia, Lauren Marsolier, Mary McCartney, Susan Meiselas, Catherine Opie, Alison Van Pelt, Cydney Puro, Marjorie Salvaterra, Jessica Shokrian and Deanna Templeton

Fuck Pretty, is a collection of photographs by world-renowned and unknown women artists, whose work moves and inspires her. There are images from contemporary photographers Catherine Opie, Susan Meiselas, Tierney Gearon and equally important to the curator, an array of emerging artists, some of whose work the curator is proud to be showing for the very first time.

+ David Levinthal "Toyland" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Leadapron 8445 Melrose Place Los Angeles CA 90069

"I don't think childhood is at all innocent, so why should toys be? It's a period of socialization and conformity. Boys are supposed to grow up to be strong and stalwart men, willing to die for their country, and so on. That period of one's life instills certain values. Playing with toys is innocent only in the sense that most people have passed through that stage. I suppose I never have. .... that toys are not benign objects, but metaphors for culture itself."

+ IRIS Nights : Fadil Berisha "The True Meaning of Beauty" 6:30-8:00 pm @ Annenberg Space for Photography 2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, CA 90067. Passes available here.

Charley Star "The Chase"

+ "Summertime" group show opening reception 7-9 pm @ Duncan Miller Projects Gallery 716 Ocean Park, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Curated by Aline Smithson Includes work by Nancy Baron, Michael Cannon, Marian Crostic, Megan Edwards, Cat Gwynn, Kelli Knack, Ann Mitchell, Steven Rood, Aline Smithson, Ashly Stohl, Noelle Swan Gilbert, Gray Malin, Liz Huston, Bootsy Holler, Stella Lee, and Karen Florek.

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+ Stephen Cohen Gallery's Book & Bake Sale 2 - 5 p.m @ Stephen Cohen Gallery 7358 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036

Celebrating the book in it’s various forms, and coinciding with our current show, Summer Reading: The Book Unbound we’ll have a wide selection of art and photography books.

Spanning a spectrum of periods and topics, artists whose books will be available include Amy Arbus, Carl Benjamin, Brian Finke, Anthony Friedkin, Lynn Geesaman, Dr. Lakra, Viggo Mortensen, Ken Ohara, Martin Parr, Picasso, John Singer Sargent, and many others, perfect for reading on a summer afternoon. There will be complimentary refreshments and delicious baked goods for sale.

+ Owen A Kelly "Burning Man" reception 2-10 pm @ Angel City Brewery, 216 S. Alameda St. Downtown, Los Angeles 90012

Owen A. Kelly, artist and photographer, will be exhibiting his Black Rock City (BRC) Portraits taken from the last three years of Burning Man. The BRC Playa Portraits Series has been an ongoing fine art journalistic endeavor, a study of the unique culture of Burning Man, featuring its participants, Mutant Vehicles (Rolling Art), and camp culture. The Large Format Type-55 Polaroids, now extinct, are enlarged to 4’x 5’ and will be showcased on the gallery floor.

+ Andrew Uchin "The Reader Series" opening reception 5- 7 pm @ dnj Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite J1 Santa Monica, CA 90404

The Reader Series (1998-2011) is a photographic exploration of the book as physical form, cultural marker, and visual word poem. My approach to artistic process is conceptual in structure but intuitively based and reflects a personal relationship with the subject that I am photographing.

+ Out of Con(text) group show opening reception 5-7 pm @ dnj Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite J1 Santa Monica, CA 90404

CURRENTLY "Through the Colonial Lens: Photographs of 19th and 20th Century India"

Samuel Bourne "Kutub Minar with the Great Arch, from the West" (1866)

Invented in Europe in the 19th century, photography quickly spread across Asia, Africa and the Americas. Through the Colonial Lens illuminates the intertwined history of India and Great Britain during this period, with over 70 photographs in two rotations. Photographers, amateur and professional, Indian and foreign, were at work in India, using the new technology to fix permanent images of the diversity of the surrounding landscapes, architecture and populations. The complicated matrix of colonialism, artistic expression and market demands produced a wide range of images that continue to resonate.

Currently at the Pacific Asia Museum until Sept 4, 2011. $9/$7 students+seniors/free for members. Free to all visitors on the 4th Friday of every month (next one is July 29, 2011)

Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101

IRIS Nights : Paul Lange "Good Light Stories – Nuances, Shadows and Reflections on Seeing " (7/27)

“My intent is to examine the fine line between reality and fantasy inherent in life— and in nature. All of my photographs tell a story of life, from the expression in someone’s face to the subtle bend in a tree, and in the dynamic living panorama crafted by human and natural forces. In my photographs I document those fleeting moments and spaces that might otherwise be lost or overlooked.”

In his Iris Nights lecture, Paul Lange will speak about the importance of light in his work and how visual ideas connect to a bigger story, illustrated with images taken from throughout his career. The event is free and passes available tomorrow (Wed) at noon and Thursday at 9:30 am here and here.

* LINK FIXED *
Thursday, July 28, 6:00-7:15pm and 8:00-9:15pm

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

ASMP/LA "Anatomy of a Job - Sales and marketing in a down economy" (7/20)

Ramon C. Purcell, ASMP-SD President, will share his successful techniques on how ot improve you business model as a professional photographer. He will cover five methods that can help overcome the challenges and obstacles of sales. These methods allow you to create a steady client list and improve your overall business. This applies to all levels of photographers in this ever-changing economy.

Tickets : Students – $5 / Members – $10 / Affiliates – $15 / Nonmembers – $20 available here. At the door is $5 more.

Wednesday July 20, 2011 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Writers Boot Camp
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tim Burton @ LACMA

Exhibition ends October 31, 2011.

#carmaggedon

photo : Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times

photo : Amanda Salem (source)

photo by Dave Sotero/Metro (source)

Also check out LAT's photos

John Huggins

John Huggins will have his series "American Landscape" exhibited on July 30th @ Craig Krull Gallery. John's work is known for his Polaroid transfer process and in his new series, his work is enlarged from original 4 x 5” transfers into 30 x 40” archival pigment prints.

JR - InsideOut Episode 1

Since the TED Prize winner JR announced his wish in March to turn the world Inside Out, thousands of people have participated in what we hope will be the world's largest participatory art project.

This is the first Episode documenting the project.

Events This Weekend

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+ Shannon Ebner opening reception 5-7 pm @ Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024. Exhibition is done in conjunction with LAXART

Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner’s work investigates the correlations between photography and language. Working with photography and sculpture, she inscribes the visual grammar of photography and the signifying role of language with a distinct materiality. Informed by various modes of writing—including poetry, experimental writing, and political speech—Ebner constructs images in the studio and the landscape.

+ Alex Hoerner "Surface Tension" opening reception 5-9 pm @ Gallery 169 169 West Channel Road, Santa Monica CA 90402


+ "The Great Picture : The World’s Largest Photograph & The Legacy Project " opening reception 6-9 pm @ Sweeney Art Gallery / Culver Center of the Arts 3834 Main Street Riverside, CA 92501

UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts present The Great Picture: The World’s Largest Photograph & The Legacy Project, an exhibition in three parts that tells the tale of the successful campaign to make the world’s largest camera and photograph. The photo’s mammoth scale of 32 x 111 feet earned it a place in Guinness World Records, and made it a photo history landmark. On July 12, 2006, The Legacy Project unveiled the world’s largest photograph at a reception held inside the world’s largest camera. It has been exhibited only twice since then during a short viewing at Art Center College of Design, South Campus Wind Tunnel in Pasadena in 2007, and this past winter at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China. (PDF)

+ Simone Lueck "Cuba TV" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Kopeiking Gallery 2766 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034

“These sets in Cuba are different. Long umbilical cords snake off to outlets unknown. Knobs so space-age that they couldn’t have ever been functional. A green hue makes each telenovela look like it takes place aboard a submarine. None of it makes sense, it’s all impossible. These rickety old boxes Lueck discovered in plain sight look to be the secret machines powering the entire façade of Cuba.”

+ Jeffrey Milstein "Cuba on the Street" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Kopeiking Gallery 2766 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034

Capturing streetscape and street life in Havana, Cienguegos, Santiago, and Trinidad, these photographs provide a rare glimpse into a place that has remained inaccessible to many in the United States.

Beneath The Sea (clip)

+ Troy Morgan "Beneath The Sea" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Blythe Projects 5797 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90232

Inspired largely by fairy tales, mythology and his childhood fascination with horror films, Morgan’s work explores universal human experiences – the 7 Deadly Sins and the unfolding of consciousness- and reflects how people orchestrate their own private worlds to make sense of relationships and life on the material plane.

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Downtown Art Walk Preview

Some selected photography events today at the Downtown Art Walk.


+ Fayette Hauser "Children of Paradise: Life with the The Cockettes San Francisco 1969-1972) @ drkrm gallery 727 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90014



+ Hugh Holland will be at Raw Material 436 South Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90013. He'll be signing copies of his book "Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978" 7-9 pm


+ "Analog to Digital" opening reception @ Los Angeles Center for Digital Art 102 W. 5th St. Los Angeles, CA 90013 7-9 pm. Artists include John Baldessari, Gronk, Patti Heid, Dennis Hopper, Kathryn Jacobi, Luke Matjas, Miss Maytag Collective, Mark Mothersbaugh, Federico Solmi, Anneliese Varaldiev, Robert Williams, Joel-Peter Witkin.


+ Christy Rogers' new work Odyssey will be part of a group exhibition Blue Canvas is hosting at The Exchange 114 W. Fifth St. Los Angeles CA 90013 6 pm 2 am.

With this project, I have been blessed with a wonderful opportunity to showcase my photography in my first ever exhibit. The exhibit will be presented on the street and in the gallery. The project is called "The Black Wall Project" which will include a series of portraits that I have taken at skid row and the surrounding community.

+ Frankie C's "The Black Wall Project" exhibition of black @ white prints will be at The Exchange 114 W. Fifth St. Los Angeles CA 90013