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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
The End of the World: Mojave Playa Interventions, Part I
Post date:Desert playas, considered to be the flattest naturally occurring geographic feature on Earth, offer unique physical facets that continue to inspire the human imagination.
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art
Departures
The Community Story Lab: The Real Me
Post date:In this month's Community Story Lab the participants turned their cameras on themselves, layering and complicating the meaning of the ubiquitous "selfie."
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Pacific Ocean
SoCal Focus
Images of Ventura County's Coast Trigger Something Deeper
Post date:The right photograph takes you back, and whisks you forward and places you firmly in the present. Time travel exists.
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!["It's a Mess Without You!" Cinco, CA, 2011 | Photo: Osceola_Refetoff](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/Osceola_Refetoff_cinco_3.jpg?itok=OWJ6yy3b ""It's a Mess Without You!" Cinco, CA, 2011 | Photo: Osceola_Refetoff")
Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
High & Dry: Through a Window Darkly
Post date:High & Dry explores what a window -- as seen through the lens of a camera -- can relate to a viewer about memory and time.
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Ethnography
Artbound
The Michael Jacksons: Photographer Lorena Turner Documents Impersonator Culture
Post date:Lorena Turner photographed a selection of Michael Jackson impersonators for her book about Jackson's influence on American popular culture.
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Photography
Earth Focus
Aerial Photographs Capture a View from Above the L.A. River
Post date:Architectural photographer Lane Barden unveils a Los Angeles River many Angelenos have yet to see -- a river seen from above.
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Hollywood
Huell Howser
Huell Howser: Press Photographers
Post date:Huell meets the photographers behind some of the most memorable images of the 20th century.
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Santa Ana
Departures
Photographing the Youth of Townsend
Post date:I had the impression that people and youth wanted to be SEEN and HEARD and the lens of my camera provided that outlet.
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art
Departures
Community Story Lab: A Photo DeTour
Post date:Participants in this month's Drop-in Community Story Lab were invited to explore, meander, and get lost in the community on a Photo DeTour around Venice.
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SoCal Connected
Shades of L.A.: A Search for Visual Ethnic History
Post date:Thousands of photographs highlighting the stories of ethnic communities in Los Angeles have been documented and restored as part of a decades-long project launched by the Los Angeles Public Library.
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art
Departures
Common Threads: Exploring Community Through Embroidery
Post date:Participants shared their own definitions and examples of the word "community," and create photographic works based on these shared ideas using found photography and embroidery.
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film and media arts
Artbound
Cosmic American Music: Iconic Images of California's Country Music Tradition
Post date:Photography exhibition "Country: Portraits of an American Sound" spans the history of modern country music, featuring images of icons Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, and more.
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High & Dry
Artbound
William 'Burro' Schmidt and His Tunnel to Nowhere
Post date:High & Dry explores prospector William "Burro" Schmidt's half-mile long tunnel in Last Chance Canyon in the Mojave Desert. Schmidt spent thirty-two years single-handedly drilling his tunnel through solid granite.
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charles phoenix
SoCal Connected
Charles Phoenix's Massive Vintage Kodachrome Collection
Post date:Retro geek and pop culture connoisseur Charles Phoenix reveals his massive collection of Kodachrome slides.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Mr. Bonzai and Keiko Kasai: Thirty Years of Inspiration
Post date:The couple Mr. Bonzai and Keiko Kasai have been inspiring each other for thirty years. They both have an exhibit opening on June 15 at the Salomon Huerta Studio Gallery.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Shades of L.A.: 20 Years of Illuminating Diversity Through Photography
Post date:The L.A. Library's Shades of L.A. photo archive contains more than 10,000 photographs drawn from family albums from communities across Greater Los Angeles.
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Photography
Artbound
Shades of L.A.
Post date:The L.A. Library's Shades of L.A. photo archive contains more than 10,000 photographs drawn from family albums from communities across Greater Los Angeles.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
High & Dry: A Collaboration Surveying the American Desert
Post date:A partnership of writing and photography, "High & Dry" surveyes the legacy of human enterprise in the California desert.
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!["Chalon," 2014, Digital C-Print, 44x30](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/McMilon7.jpg?itok=70GECyf_ ""Chalon," 2014, Digital C-Print, 44x30")
Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
A Little Riot: Matthew McMilon's Re-Presentation of Gender Identity
Post date:Matthew McMilon's body of work explores not only aspects specific to McMilon's own life experiences but re-examines queer identity entirely.
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film and media arts
Artbound
Poetics of the Everyday: The Photographic Practice of Masood Kamandy
Post date:In "M.O.O.P." (Matter Out of Place), Masood Kamandy's photographs reveal everyday items transformed and given strange new life through interventions of various kinds.