photography museums los angeles

March 21, 2010 12:52 am | Uncategorized

photography museums los angeles
At California State Railroad Museum, photo exhibit focuses on the humanity of agriculture
Rick Nahmias has a documentarian’s eye for society’s fringe – the forgotten, the invisible, the underserved, the overlooked.
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia Loves Art


Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles


Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles


$27.92


In 1946, the tabloid photographer known as Weegee relocated from New York City to Los Angeles. Abandoning the grisly crime scenes for which he was best known, Weegee trained his camera instead on Hollywood celebrities, starlets, autograph seekers, and shop-window mannequins, sometimes distorted through trick lenses and multiple exposures. “Now I could really photograph the subjects I liked,&…

Irving Penn: Small Trades


Irving Penn: Small Trades


$37.96


Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine.  In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and thus his monumental work The Small Trades began.  Created in 1950 and 1951 in Paris, London, and New York, The Small Trades consist…

In Focus: Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum


In Focus: Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum


$7.95


Books from the highly acclaimed In Focus Series concentrate on individual photographers who have made the greatest impact on the history of the medium. Thoughtfully selected photographs, image notations, and the transcripts of scholarly discussions serve to define the sensibilities and vision of each artist, lending a unique perspective on their vital contributions….


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