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Visual Arts
Artbound
'90s Photos of LAPD Reveal a City in Pain
Post date:Joseph Rodriguez’s photographs of the LAPD in 1994 is a deeply personal, political act that still resonates in today’s political climate.
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Visual Arts
Southland Sessions
William Camargo’s Lens Brings Focus to Obscured Histories in Orange County
Post date:Through William Camargo's dive into each city’s archive, he uncovers histories of violence and exploitive policies against Black and Brown communities, and connects those consequences of the past to the current uprising for racial justice.
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Visual Arts
Southland Sessions
Take a Joy Ride Through Time on Sunset Boulevard with Ed Ruscha
Post date:The Getty’s “12 Sunsets,” project digitizes Ed Ruscha’s many photographs of each building on Sunset Boulevard from 1966 to 2007.
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film and media arts
Southland Sessions
Powerful Portraits of People Wounded by Police During Protests Are a Form of Resistance
Post date:This photographer is taking portraits of people wounded from police brutality during Black Lives Matter protests. The powerful images are a form of testimony.
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film and media arts
Southland Sessions
Largest Photo Art Fair in the West Coast Goes Virtual (and Global)
Post date:Photo L.A., the largest photography art fair on the West Coast for nearly 30 years, will go virtual next year. This change also opened doors to more participants.
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film and media arts
Southland Sessions
Annenberg Space for Photography Shutters Amid Pandemic
Post date:After more than a decade, the Century City-based cultural institution is closing due to COVID-19.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Interactive: The Chicano Photographer Who Captured 40+ Years of Hollywood and Civil Rights Movements
Post date:The average American would not know George Rodriguez's name, though his images have been featured in magazines, newspapers, books, and even record covers seen by millions. The Vincent Price Art Museum is honoring him with his first retrospective.
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African American
Lost LA
Janna Ireland: Chasing Paul R. Williams Through Photography
Post date:For the past two years, artist and photographer Janna Ireland has been honoring the work of the great Paul R. Williams through an ongoing series of photographs.
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japanese american internment
Lost LA
The Photographer Who Captured the Insider's View of Manzanar
Post date:Toyo Miyatake's photographs provide an intimate window into the world of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles in its darkest times in Manzanar and through its most joyous occasions. Learn about the man behind the lens.
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japanese american internment
Lost LA
Photographer Traces the Stories of Incarcerees Post-WWII
Post date:Paul Kitagaki, Jr. excavates the almost-forgotten stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. His photographs and oral histories are an attempt to keep the painful, but important memories of that troubled past alive.
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Photography
Nightshift
PHOTOS: Los Angeles at Night
Post date:There is a tranquility that radiates throughout the city after-hours that can be both beautiful and lonely. Places that are normally bustling with people stand uninhabited, creating a surreal landscape that most never see.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
I am a Mexicano: The Legacy of Chicano Journalist and Activist Raul Ruiz
Post date:Photographer, journalist, activist, as well as a Harvard educated scholar and CSU Northridge professor, Raul Ruiz showed Chicanos what to aspire to. He passed away June 13 at the age of 78.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
"In the Sunshine of Neglect" Reveals Nuances of the Inland Empire
Post date:“In the Sunshine of Neglect," a double venue exhibition, exposes the many layers of life in a vast area of contiguous valleys nestled below the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains: Inland Southern California.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Into the Chuckwallas: Rediscovered Desert Photographs of Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves
Post date:In the 1920s, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera, Susie Smith and her cousin Lula Mae Graves set out to photograph the last of the prospectors, burro packers and stage stops in the remote desert to the east.
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Photography
Lost LA
Julius Shulman: Man Behind the Camera
Post date:In this 2005 interview, Julius Shulman explains how the people who lived in buildings gave purpose and meaning to the idea of home.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Landscapes That Remind Us of Our Place in this World
Post date:Our lives are short. When compared to the landscape around us, we are the proverbial mayfly. Given the brevity of our mortality, we swell with pride, or shutter from embarrassment about what we have done to our home.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Could There Be Hollywood Ending for this Scarred Landscape?
Post date:Whittaker-Bermite in Santa Clarita has had many transformation, but this latest one maybe the most promising of all.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
L.A. Photographer Don Farber Documents Buddhist Life in the City
Post date:Don Farber, a Los Angeles-based photographer and practicing Buddhist, has devoted four decades now to documenting Buddhist life throughout Asia and in the West as part of his spiritual practice.
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PST: LA/LA
Artbound
Photographer Parses the Politics and Relevance of L.A.’s Murals and Marks
Post date:Artist Ken Gonzales-Day's exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, “Surface Tension,” engages the mural landscape of Los Angeles and the many issues surrounding graphic arts in the public square.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Photography Series Give Latinas and African-American Women A Royal Bearing
Post date:Duo captures the beauty and dignity of brown and black women through elaborate hairstyles adorned with gold jewelry and beautifully composed photography.