photo l.a. opens TONIGHT!!!
Join us at the historic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 6 PM - 9 PM for what will certainly be a spectacular event!
Special host Moby and soundtrack provided by DJ Aaron Byrd, KCRW
Tickets can still be purchased at the door. All proceeds benefit the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Join a Private Docent Tour, before the Fair opens, to view the artwork at photo l.a. with the guidance of a well-regarded expert from the fields of exhibitions, collections and art criticism.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 … 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Docent Tour with Shana Nys Dambrot (Art Critic, Curator)
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Docent Tour with Weston Naef (Curator Emeritus, Dept. of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15 9:30 AM … 11:00 AM
Docent Tour with Scarlet Cheng (Art critic, Journalist)
MONDAY, JANUARY 16 9:30 AM … 11:00 AM
Docent Tour John Bennette (Curator, Editor)
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Pia MYrvoLD’s FLOW - Video Wall is an imaginative video sequence that takes the viewer through a series of engaging transformations that, as they proceed, assume an almost meditative aspect. The moving forms are backgrounded by solid blocks of color which give FLOW a subtle emotionality, somewhat like the work of Turrell or Rothko. Viewing FLOW is a journey both personal and artistic; an unusual, even remarkable, achievement for abstract video animation.
- Geoff Ainsworth, Venice 2011
Tiffany Trenda to perform Urban Devotion at our Opening Night Gala Reception.
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Stephen Shore, La Brea Avenue and Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975
MONDAY, JANUARY 16 … 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Stephen Shore will use his work as a springboard to examine the central issues of photography that have concerned him over the years.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15 … 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Regarded as one of our foremost photographers, Catherine Opie has long captured the faces and landscapes of American communities both inside and outside the mainstream. Join her for a discussion of her career and practice, and a signing of Inauguration, a new book of photographs documenting the historic day when over one million people gathered on the national mall to see the swearing in of President Barack Obama.
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The EMERGING FOCUS Learning Series
For more information please visit us at photola.com
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image: Vivian Maier, Untitled (woman with pearls), 1967-68
MONDAY, JANUARY 16 … 11:30 - 12:30 PM
With the exhibition/project partners: Jeffrey Goldstein, Steve Poster, Richard Gordon.
Obscure until her work’s recent discovery in abandoned storage lockers, Vivian Maier worked as a nanny in Chicago from the mid 1950s. Born in New York and spending part of her youth in France, Maier traveled widely in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 … 11:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Carleton Watkins and His First Collectors, in conjunction with the newly published book, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (J. Paul Getty Museum 2011). This long awaited book makes known for the first time the scope, breadth and depth of Watkins’s work with the large format camera on the Pacific Coast between about 1860 and 1880. The talk will be illustrated with engravings, maps, daguerreotypes, stereographs, and mammoth-plate images.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 … 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
A discussion on ideas brought up in Mr. Fried’s book.
Moderator:
Michael Fried (Art Critic)
Panelists:
Charles Ray
James Welling
Walead Beshty
Russell Ferguson
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GALLERIES
21st Editions, Inc. (Massachusetts)
The Ansel Adams Gallery (California)
ARGENTIC (France)
Artbook | D.A.P. (New York, Los Angeles)
Art Lexing (Miami)
Be-hold, Inc. (New York)
The Blind Photographer’s Guild (California)
Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles)
Cohen Classic (Los Angeles)
Czech Center for Photography (Czech Republic)
Gallerie Deschler (German)
dnj Gallery (Los Angeles)
Erdmann Contemporary (South Africa)
Focus (New York)
Jancar Gallery (Los Angeles)
Joerg Maass Kunsthandel (Berlin)
LA Artist Book Arts (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts (LACDA) (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Art Association | Gallery 825 (Los Angeles)
Light Work (New York)
Louis Klaitman (Berkley)
Material Press & Skeketee Books
Monroe Gallery of Photography (New Mexico)
Raymond Meeks | dumbsaint (Portland)
Nazraeli Press (Portland)
Northern Light Gallery (Denmark)
One Hour Cleaners (Los Angeles)
Galerie OPEN (Berlin)
PX Photography (New York)
Queensland Centre for Photography (Australia)
Select Venacular Photographs | Norman Kulkin (Los Angeles)
Smashbox Studios (Los Angeles)
Smith Anderson North (California)
Susan Spiritus Gallery (Newport Beach)
Women in Photography International
YOUNGPROJECTS (Los Angeles)
Zero + Publishing (Los Angeles)
PRESS
Art Scene, Visual Art Source, art ltd.
Fabrik Magazine
NY Times
NON PROFITS
LACMA | PAC
Lucie Foundation
Brooks Institute for Photography
Museum of Latin American Art
Santa Monica Museum of Art
SPONSORS
The Icon
Smashbox Studios
Fine Art Solutions
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
Moby | Destroyed
Tiffany Trenda | Urban Devotion
Soho Cameraworks | Cameravision 1975 - 1983
Golden Age of Physique Photography 1945 - 1970
Emerging Focus Finalists
Vivian Maier : Street Photographer
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15 … 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Inspired by the Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time, photographers of the period, recall the circumstances under which they started their careers, their professional work practices, and the creation of their early projects. Panelists will bring the audience up-to-date, on their current endeavors and goals.
Moderator:
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp (Art Critic/Author of Rebels in Paradise: The L.A. Art Scene and the 1960s)
Panelists:
Willie Middlebrook (Photographer)
Sheila Pinkel (Photographer)
Lloyd Ziff (Photographer)
Darryl Curran (Photographer)
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 … 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Moby has been photographing longer than he’s been making music. Destroyed, his recent book of photographs, explored his life on the road, a seemingly endless journey through airports punctuated with various performances worldwide. This was further refined in his recent work where he concentrated on his view from the stage, where night after night he faces a massive crowd of people, always different yet always the same.
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