Showing posts with label street photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street photography. Show all posts
Friday, February 15, 2013
Sunday, July 8, 2012
July 4th, 2012
C H I N A T O W N
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| Jeaux is pretending to be happy, even though we were sad that Ooga Booga wasn't open. I'm glad we stopped by anyway because low and behold, a window display from Beautification Solutions. AKA Katie Vonderheide of Synchronicity Space and Justin McInteer, formerly of Echo Curio. They painted some favorite, and glorious Ooga Booga items directly onto the glass. How cute is that No Age tee? My friend, Katie, is one half of Synchronicity! She is really nice, very talented, and wears cute dresses. Did you guys see my post about Friday night?! Check it out! Hope some of you homies were able to catch the live readings not too long ago this evening (well, Saturday evening now). |
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| I like to stand in alleys (only in the daytime) |
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The buildings in Chinatown are unreal. Full of color and life. Crazy shapes... almost European looking. I can spend hours shooting photographs here.
Speaking of colors, we got to see Moonrise Kingdom. The art direction is beautiful, but what I really enjoyed was the story. First love, that is so sweet and innocent, and kind of sexy (in the purest way). It almost made me cry. Oh, to be a little girl again. Here is the trailer.
your friend,
ava
Saturday, January 28, 2012
More Vivian Maier
This past Wednesday I decided to check out the Vivian Maier exhibit at MK Gallery.
The gallery closes at 6pm and I was cutting it close that day. For anyone who hasn't been to the gallery (it was my first time), beware of that traffic on La Brea. Also, it was hard to find. I made a few u-turns until I finally saw an image in the window. I curse mapquest directions!
I parked behind some pretty, Hollywood apartments and preceded to make my way to the gallery. I was lucky enough to catch the tail end of the golden hour earlier and snapped a few photos. I make it a point now to keep my camera in the car, just in case.
I had 15 minutes to spare and I already felt inspired, so it was a really good 15 minutes.
My favorites. All these images plus more on her website.
I had mixed feelings about the show. I really loved her self portraits and thought they were fascinating.
I thought that she had a great eye for detail, and I could see that she liked to experiment. I particularly love the one where you see her smiling. She's clearly been caught in the act of voyeurism and enjoys it. I get nervous when taking portraits, so I was really fond of that and maybe felt like I knew a little more about this woman.
She never got to see this success in her life. She died and then her work was discovered, and she could have shown her collection to someone, but chose not to. So I wonder if this lady was still alive, would we have seen any of these? That's where the mixed feelings set in. I don't know if its exploitation, but you have to wonder if part of the allure is because this artist is no longer with us? I mean, these images were going for 2,000 dollars (minimum) and maybe I'm just jaded because I've seen the Robert Frank, and the Walker Evans stills (his subway portraits are some of the best ever) and admired Arbus and Eggleston. I wanted to be like them, except I don't have a drinking problem and I'm not entirely depressed. I don't know. All I do know is that I love to look at things.
It was nice to look at some art again.
Curious about your thoughts. Let's have a discussion.
your friend,
ava
The gallery closes at 6pm and I was cutting it close that day. For anyone who hasn't been to the gallery (it was my first time), beware of that traffic on La Brea. Also, it was hard to find. I made a few u-turns until I finally saw an image in the window. I curse mapquest directions!
I parked behind some pretty, Hollywood apartments and preceded to make my way to the gallery. I was lucky enough to catch the tail end of the golden hour earlier and snapped a few photos. I make it a point now to keep my camera in the car, just in case.
I had 15 minutes to spare and I already felt inspired, so it was a really good 15 minutes.
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| Reminds me of this Robert Frank image. |
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| Has anyone seen The Orphanage?! Creepy/cute for sure. |
My favorites. All these images plus more on her website.
I had mixed feelings about the show. I really loved her self portraits and thought they were fascinating.
I thought that she had a great eye for detail, and I could see that she liked to experiment. I particularly love the one where you see her smiling. She's clearly been caught in the act of voyeurism and enjoys it. I get nervous when taking portraits, so I was really fond of that and maybe felt like I knew a little more about this woman.
She never got to see this success in her life. She died and then her work was discovered, and she could have shown her collection to someone, but chose not to. So I wonder if this lady was still alive, would we have seen any of these? That's where the mixed feelings set in. I don't know if its exploitation, but you have to wonder if part of the allure is because this artist is no longer with us? I mean, these images were going for 2,000 dollars (minimum) and maybe I'm just jaded because I've seen the Robert Frank, and the Walker Evans stills (his subway portraits are some of the best ever) and admired Arbus and Eggleston. I wanted to be like them, except I don't have a drinking problem and I'm not entirely depressed. I don't know. All I do know is that I love to look at things.
It was nice to look at some art again.
Curious about your thoughts. Let's have a discussion.
your friend,
ava
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Vivian Maier
When sifting through pages of the LA Weekly during a break at work, I came across this little tidbit about the photographer Vivian Maier. I remember seeing something about her almost a year ago.
I'm excited to see these images knowing that they were hidden for so long. It's like unlocking the pages of a diary. This is exactly the photographic style I've always been drawn to. Stylized images of every day. William Eggleston is my favorite example of this.
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The opening reception was tonight. Hosted by Tim Roth. Is that the Tim Roth I'm thinking of? Oh, , ,pumpkin.
The work will be up till January 28th at Merry Karnowsky Gallery.
your friend,
ava
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