Halloween @ PIX !

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.

Opens @ Laemmle Music Hall here in Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2011

Lomography Gallery Store LA Unveiling New Camera

The Lomography Gallery Store LA is hosting a world premiere event, where we will take you back a few decades to the glory of old Hollywood! Walk the red carpet where LomoRazzi take your shot! Come inside to enjoy some ritzy refreshments. Take a seat as we unveil the newest star of Lomography.

Come in your red-carpet attire, bring a friend, and join us in an all-analogue celebration of Hollywood nights. Every Lomographer is invited to this special feature. Hot and buttery popcorn will be made fresh all night! Tables will be lined with gummies, chocolate covered raisins, and other movie-theater treats! Soda Pop, cocktails, and other refreshments will be plentiful. So mark your calenders and don’t miss out on the biggest Hollywood night of the year!

More info here.Facebook event page here.

Thursday, November 3, 2011; 7:00 – 10:00pm

Lomography Gallery Store LA
7998 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90046


RSVP shopla@lomography.com

Gilda Davidian "Portrait Studio"

Portrait Studio consists of portraits of Armenian photographers from Los Angeles (Pasadena, Glendale, Hollywood) within their studios and interior images of the spaces themselves. The photographers were photographed with their signature lighting and holding their favorite cameras against the backdrop of their choice.

This body of work aims to document the studios as sites of preservation and representations of spaces that exist in cultural and social transitions. I am drawn to the ways in which they reflect and refract the photographic medium’s ability to preserve through time. I am also interested in the photographers and their instruments as witnesses to the recent, rapid changes taking place in the practice of photography.

Check the rest out at Gilda Davidian website. (via)

Events this Weekend

F R I D A Y



+ An Evening with TBWA\CHIAT\DAY's Jigisha Bouverat @ Art Center Los Angeles Times Theater Art Center College of Design 1700 Lida Street Pasadena, CA 91103 7:00 pm -8:30 pm



+ Ejen Chuang "Cosplay in America" opening reception 7-9 pm @ Icon Projects 5450 WIlshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036


S A T U R D A Y



+ CLOSING - Anthony Friedkin "The Surfing Essay" @ drkrm 727 S. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90014


+ CLOSING - Eriberto and Estevan Oriol "Like Father, Like Son" @ Carmichael Gallery - 5795 Washington Blvd Culver City CA 90232


+ CLOSING : John Divola & Amir Zaki "Despite Intentions" @ Angles Gallery 2754 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034



+ CLOSING : Matthew Brandt @ M+B 612 North Almont Drive, West Hollywood, CA 90069


+ Siri Kaur "Know Me for the First Time" opening reception 6-9 pm @ Blythe Projects 5797 Washington Boulevard Culver City, CA 90232


+ Marta Soul "Idilios" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Kopeikin Gallery 2766 South La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90034


+ Ira Meyer "The Poetry of Ice" opening reception 6:30-9:00 pm @ G2 Gallery‎ 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard Venice, CA 90291



+ "Nature LA: Christine Caldwell" opening reception 6:30-9:00 pm @ G2 Gallery‎ 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard Venice, CA 90291

Jim Mangan "Color'd" reception + book signing (10/27)

“For me, Color’d represents a journey where there exists no boundaries, an escape from everyday society into a world where anything seems possible but really, it can be anything you’d like it to be.”

Color'd
a photograph portfolio by Jim Mangan
October 27 - November 12

Opening Reception and Book Launch
October 27th, 2011, 7 - 10pm
DJ set by Patrick Melcher

Country Club Los Angeles
7561 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Open Show Los Angeles #9 (10/26)

David Fairchild

Lynne Maune

Patrick Gookin

Kevin McCollister

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.

Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:30-9:30 pm

Translight Photography Center
618 Moulton Ave Ste #E
Los Angeles, CA 90031

Lyonel Feininger opens @ The Getty

A highly regarded painter, printmaker, and draftsman, Lyonel Feininger was the first master appointed to the newly established Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, in 1919. Like many other figures at the innovative art school, Feininger turned to photography as a tool for visual exploration. Beginning in 1928 and for the next decade, he used the camera to explore transparency, reflection, night imagery, and the effects of light and shadow.

October 25, 2011–March 11, 2012. Tonight will be a lecture "Lyonel Feininger's New Vision" at 7 pm. Free.

The Getty
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, California 90049

IRIS Nights : An Evening with Amber Valletta and Amanda de Cadenet (11/3)

Model and actress Amber Valletta has graced the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Allure, I-D, W and Time. Her film and television career includes MTV’s House of Style, ABC's Revenge, What Lies Beneath and Hitch. She has served as the face of some of the biggest brands in fashion, as well as an ambassador for numerous social and environmental organizations. Amber is involved with the Natural Resources Defense Fund, Oceana, the International Foundation for Animal Welfare, Raise the Roof for Haiti, Friendly House and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Amanda de Cadenet is a fashion and portrait photographer, television producer and host. She is the youngest woman to shoot a Vogue magazine cover and has photographed many influential figures in popular culture. She is best known for her intimate portraits of women, in which she captures their true and unique selves. Amanda is mother to four-year-old twins and an 18-year-old daughter.

Amber and Amanda will discuss the former's personal journey through high fashion, a world obsessed with youth and beauty, and how her life experience has deepened her work as a model, collaborator and artist.

Passes available on Wednesday Oct 26, 2011 @ noon as well as Thursday Oct 27, 2011 at 9:30 am.

Thursday, November 3, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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

Siri Kaur "Know Me for the First Time" (10/29)

Know Me For the First Time represents the artist’s stand against the relentless march of time, and an embrace of life’s beautiful and inescapably painful unfolding. Kaur’s photographs engage the Western canon—from the Baroque to photorealist painting, from German Romanticism to contemporary portraiture. Inspired by mysticism, spirituality, and the occult, Kaur weaves visual echoes from her past to create an evocative, dreamy universe uniquely her own in both its formal qualities and narrative themes.

October 29 - December 17, 2011

Opening Reception
Saturday, October 29th from 6 to 8pm

Blythe Projects
5797 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232.

An Evening with TBWA\CHIAT\DAY's Jigisha Bouverat

From Damon Casarez who produce this event :

The interview, slideshow and question + answer session will cover topics regarding what art producers want from photographers and how art producers find and hire photographers. The interview will be geared towards answering questions regarding marketing/self promotion, where do art producers find talent, what does an art producer do on a daily basis, how have other photographers started in advertising and other questions regarding self promotion and advertising photography.

Please bring questions for Jigisha, it will be a good chance to hear honest answers from an art producer who is constantly hiring photographers for ad campaigns as well as managing other art producers.

The event is open to the public.

Facebook event page

October 28, 2011 7:00-8:30 pm

Los Angeles Times Theater
Art Center College of Design
1700 Lida StreetPasadena, CA 91103

Occupy L.A. Portraits

Check out the rest @ Noe Montes website.

"Format Perspective" screening TONIGHT

Format Perspective is a film by Phil Evans that explores the work, lives and opinions of six European skate photographers. The film showcases the photography of Nils Svensson (Malmo), Stu Robinson (Belfast), Alex Irvine (London), Rich Gilligan (Dublin), Sergej Vutuc (Heilbronn) and Bertrand Trichet (Barcelona/Tokyo), while also giving us an insight into the different approaches used by this diverse line-up of photographers. Filmed completely on super 8 film, this project gives a behind-the-scenes look at the skating that these guys like to shoot, as well as the resulting photos that emerge from these sessions.

Screening tonight @ Downtown Independent Theater as part of the International Skateboard Film Festival going on October 21 - 25, 2011. $12

Saturday Oct 22, 2011 8-10 pm

Downtown Independent Theater
251 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Allan Barnes "People of the 21st Century" (10/22)

For this exhibition, the artist will show recent portraits done in Wet Plate Collodion. Using chemicals such as silver nitrate and ether this process includes coating, sensitizing and developing a sheet of metal in a period of fifteen minutes. Each image is hauntingly beautiful and expresses a desire to transcend time and technology.
“I am inspired by the character of Billy Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut's Novel Slaugtherhouse-Five who begins the story with the words: ‘I have become unstuck in time’.”

Opening reception Sat. Oct 22, 2011 7-11 pm

POVevolving Gallery
939 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012

This is Your Life.

I stumbled upon this probably a months back. I had posted on my own personal Facebook but for some reason, never posted on this blog. I can relate to "If you don't like your job quit". It was 1999 and I had just moved to Los Angeles. Back in Texas I worked for Ritz Camera, a consumer camera store/one hour photo. I figured with the experiences from doing lab work I could easily get a gig doing something similar. Well, I ended up at a small lab over in Studio City. I lasted for one week.

The job was simple enough and I could do it in my sleep but I also realized it was draining my soul away. I didn't move to Los Angeles to just maintain an existence. I started on a Monday and quit that very Friday. You learn to realize that your time is important. Spend it doing something you want to do.

Sam Comen "28 at 28" opening reception (10/22)

In my late 20s, I sensed a turning point coming. My photo assisting days were over, my photography career was in full swing, and my aspirations as an artist and commercial photographer were in the forefront of my mind. I found myself swept-up in the irreverent parties and carefree feasts typical of my mid-20s less and less. I was becoming more confident in my photography, more aware of my place in the context of other artists, historical and contemporary. And I marveled at the success of my close friends. Around me my peers were making strides in their careers, becoming prolific in their artwork, finding partners, buying homes, and some even having children of their own. All of us were finding our voices, becoming comfortable in our own skins, growing into adults.

This Sunday Sam Comen invite you to check out his work from his 28 at 28 series from the past 3 years over this Saturday at his reception which happens to be his 31st birthday so go down there and wish him a happy one :) The show will be up for the next three months.

Saturday October 22, 2011 6-8 pm

Next Space
9415 Culver Blvd.
Culver City, CA, 90232

Marilyn Monroe, "12 Photographs" (10/21)

Duncan Miller Gallery announces its upcoming exhibition of Marilyn Monroe photographs from October 21 - November 26, 2011. On display are the poignant and beautiful photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken while making the movie “Something’s Got to Give” in 1962. This was her last professional photo session.

The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came out of the water au natural. She was radiantly smiling and in her element: the sexual goddess, posing for eternity. Two months after celebrating her birthday on this film set, Marilyn died.

These legendary images that survived (Marilyn would cut up the negatives she didn't like) have been displayed in New York, China, Bulgaria, Salzburg, Berlin, Miami and London. The large scale (48" x 60") photographs are now available in Los Angeles.

Although later becoming a New York Times best-selling author and director of fifteen films, Brooklyn-born Lawrence Schiller started his career as a photojournalist for Life, The Sunday Times, Time, Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post.

Additional photographs of Marilyn by selected photographers will also be on display.

Opening reception Oct 21, 2011 7-9 pm

Duncan Miller Gallery
10959 Venice Blvd.
LA 90034

Closing this Weekend

+ Moby "Destroyed" @ Kopeikin Gallery 2766 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034 until Saturday Oct. 22nd. Hours : Tues-Sat 11 to 5 pm

Charlie Roitz " Ecological Anagoge - Triptych

+ Photography Into Sculpture @ Cherry and Martin 2712 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 until Saturday Oct. 22nd. Hours : Tues-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm

Charles Shotwell "3Trees"

+ The Art of Photography Show @ Lyceum Theater Gallery 79 Horton Plaza San Diego, CA 92101

ASMP/LA " Frank Ockenfels 3 - Opportunity Knocks" (10/19)

“My lecture will be a conversation about what we, as photographers, can do with each opportunity handed to us. I will discuss the various ways in which we can go beyond what is asked of us in executing a specific assignment. How thinking outside of the box and showcasing your personal perspective can ultimately give clients more than what they asked for or expected. I will show various editorial, music packaging and tv/movie advertising images and will discuss the process of cultivating our photographic identity.”

Details @ ASMP/LA

Students – $5
Members – $10
Affiliates – $15
Non-members – $20
($5 more at the door)

Wednesday Oct. 19, 7 PM (Doors open at 6:30)

Julia Dean
755 Seward St.
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Ellen von Unwerth

"I think that, because I know what it feels like to be in front of the camera, I can be more sympathetic to my subjects. Being in front of the lens, you are very vulnerable. It's not a nice feeling, and I don't miss it. But it's very helpful to know exactly what it's like. When I was a model I hated when I wasn't allowed to move, so I love movement and I encourage my subjects to play around, to move and to be silly."

This Thursday is the opening reception to Ellen von Unwerth : Photographs at Fahey/Klein over on La Brea (just up the street from PIX.) Then on Friday at Taschen Beverly Hills will be the "Fräulein" Masquerade Ball and Signing with Ellen von Unwerth. Pre-ordering this book allows you and a guest to this event. Culinary offerings, champagne and cocktails as well as entertainment will be provided. Dress attire is encouraged. Masks and costumes are optional. You can secure the copy via 310.274.4300 or emailing store-beverly(at)taschen.com

"Ellen von Unweth : Photographs" Opening Reception on Thurs. Oct 20 7-9 pm
Fahey/Klein 148 North La Brea Los Angeles, CA 90036

"Fräulein" Masquerade Ball and Signing on Fri. Oct 21 7-9 pm
TASCHEN Store Beverly Hills 354 N. Beverly Drive Beverly Hills, CA, 90210

IRIS Nights - Beauty: The Real vs. The Ideal (10/27)

Elaine D’Farley is the Beauty Director for SELF magazine, where she directs, researches and analyzes industry trends and creates editorial beauty content on multiple platforms. D’Farley spent many years as a fashion editor and stylist and throughout her career attended the fashion shows in Milan, Paris and New York while creating covers, fashion and beauty editorial pages for various magazines.

Philip Gefter writes about photography for The Daily Beast. He previously wrote about the subject for The New York Times. His book of essays, Photography After Frank, was published by Aperture. He produced the feature-length documentary Bill Cunningham New York and is at work on a biography of Sam Wagstaff. He is currently a Guest Scholar at the Getty Museum.

D'Farley will discuss the editorial decision-making process behind contemporary images of beauty and the dichotomy between what is real vs. inspirational or fake. Gefter will chart ideals of beauty as they have changed in fashion photography over the last century.

This event is free and passes are available on Wednesday Oct 19th at noon as well as Thursday Oct 20th at 9:30 am.

Thursday October 27, 2011 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

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