Recently in Los Angeles Category
A couple of emails later and some digging on my own have some up with a few additions to my Southern California tour list.
Todd Hido is a photographer whose work I have long admired in concept, but have yet to see in person.
Through Feb 28 at Rose Gallery
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave., Building G-5
Santa Monica, CA
(310) 264-8440
The Collectible Moment, 160 photographs from the Norton Simon Museum (formerly Pasadena Art Musuem). I like these lesser known venues (to me, at least) when they put on a show from their own flat files. Typically, the canon falls away and you can evaluate each image for its own worth without having a photographer's name and reputation hovering close by.
Through Feb 26 at Norton Simon Museum
411 W Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA
(626) 449-6840
Wolfgang Tillmans retrospective
Through Jan 7 at UCLA Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
(310) 443-7000
My sister and her family have just moved back to the United States from Kenya and our families are spending the Christmas holiday together at their temporary home southeast of Los Angeles. So, of course, I've got to try to put together a Southern Cali tour while I'm here. It's not easy. I really hate being in the car and the key shows I'm interested are spread all over the place, from La Jolla down by San Diego to the Getty Center in north Los Angeles.
I haven't been able to find good sources for gallery listings; maybe there just isn't much photography on view in LA right now. Photography Now lists 13 pages of shows in NYC but only 3 for LA. Am I missing something? Angelenos, end me an email with tips (link in right column.)
What I've got so far:
John Szarkowski
Through Dec 30 at Peter Fetterman Gallery
Bergamont Station
2525 Michigan Ave, A7
Santa Monica, CA
(310) 453-6463
Getty Center
"Where We Live", photos from the Berman Collection (thru Feb 25)
Public Faces/Private Spaces, recent acquisitions (thru Feb 4)
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA
(310) 440-7330
LA County Museum of Art
Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture
Long Exposures, photo essays form the collection
Both through Jan 7
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
(323) 857-6000
Brian Ulrich, Copia
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Through May 13
700 Prospect St
La Jolla, CA
(858) 454-3541
Great interview with John Szarkowski in LA Weekly.
Some photographers think the idea is enough. I told a good story in my Getty talk, a beautiful story, to the point: Ducasse says to his friend Mallarmé — I think this is a true story — he says, “You know, I’ve got a lot of good ideas for poems, but the poems are never very good.” Mallarmé says, “Of course, you don’t make poems out of ideas, you make poems out of words.” Really good, huh? Really true. So, photographers who aren’t so good think that you make photographs out of ideas. And they generally get only about halfway to the photograph and think that they’re done.
(via MAN)
Tyler Green has reviewed the Getty's Robert Adams show, drawn from its permanent collection. For those of us who are from the West and love the West, Adams' critique of our destructive relationship with the land is only growing in importance.
Tyler Green is posting a series on architectural photographer Julius Schulman over the course of the coming days. The first bit is up on Modern Art Notes now. The Getty's Schulman retrospective closes on Sunday.
