This side of paradise
dal 31/1/2009 al 18/4/2009
Segnalato da
31/1/2009
This side of paradise
Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne
Los Angeles (1865-2008). This complex, sprawling city has long fascinated photographers of many stripes: studio professionals, industrial photographers, photojournalists, fashion and glamour photographers, amateurs, tourists and art photographers. The exhibition offers the widest possible range of these approaches. It features more than a 100 famous and unknown photographers who together have documented, imagined, celebrated, criticized and mythologized the city from the mid-19th century to the present.
"Imagine Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-buried on a ridge of crumbling rock, the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains, with chaparral, flowers and snakes writhing over her body, and mists, smog, or dreams gathering in every curve. You'd need a certain height to recognize that intricate course as a body. But that's Mulholland Drive... It's about as long as on old movie, and as full of scents and half-grasped fears as Marilyn's drowsy state."
-David Thomson
The body and the landscape, inextricably, sensuously intertwined - two themes which run through this multifaceted 'portrait' of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles: City of Angels... and Demons. For the lucky few, the beautiful, the well-born, a utopia - endless sunshine, beaches and swimming pools, peopled by vigorous, healthy bodies; for many others, a dystopia - endless, clogged freeways, smog, fearfulness, a city without a center, or (it is sometimes said), a soul. In the skies above, glittering Hollywood stars; on the hard pavements below, ever-present terror of earthquake and social unrest. Dream or nightmare? Fact or fiction? Perhaps the truth of this quixotic, haunting place lies somewhere between the perceived extremes.
This complex, sprawling city has long fascinated photographers of many stripes: studio professionals, industrial photographers, photojournalists, fashion and glamour photographers, amateurs, tourists and art photographers. The exhibition offers the widest possible range of these approaches. It features more than a hundred famous and unknown photographers who together have documented, imagined, celebrated, criticized and mythologized the city from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
There are seven sections to the exhibition: Garden, Move, Work, Dwell, Play, Clash, and Dream. These sections are meant to help us think about key aspects of life in Los Angeles, aspects which touch everyone, rich or poor, in fundamental ways. However, the seven sections are only meant as a rough guide to the rich pictorial terrain, and viewers are encouraged to strike out on their own journey through the highways and the byways of this compelling city.
List of photographers:
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Harry Adams (1918-1988) | Laura Aguilar (1959) | Clem Albers (1903c-1991) | Thomas Alleman (1958) | Austin Studio () | Richard Avedon (1923-2004) | G. C. Babbit () | James Baker (1953) | John Baldessari (1931) | Lewis Baltz (1945) | Adam Bartos (1953) | Marjorie Bentley () | Haven G. Bishop (1879-1972) | Kaucyila Brooke (1952) | F. A. Bussey () | Jo Ann Callis (1940) | Paul Caponigro (1932) | Herb Carleton (1927-1992) | Gusmano Cesaretti (1946) | William Claxton (1927) | Will Connell (1898-1961) | Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) | Darryl Curran (1935) | Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) | Joe Deal (1947) | John Divola (1949) | Lemuel S. Ellis (1854-unknown date) | Christina Fernandez (1965) | Judy Fiskin (1945) | William Henry Fletcher (1838-1922) | Robbert Flick (1939) | Robert Frank (1924) | Anthony Friedkin (1949) | Lee Friedlander (1934) | Herve Friend (actif entre 1860 et 1890) | Harry Jr. Gamboa (1951) | William A. Garnett (1916-2006) | Jeff Gates (1949) | William M. Godfrey (1825-1900) | Jim Goldberg (1953) | Leroy Grannis (1917) | Lauren Greenfield (1966) | Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) | Karen Halverson (1941) | Lyle Ashton Harris (1965) | Robert F. Heinecken (1931-2006) | Anthony Hernandez (1947) | Douglas Hill (1950) | David Hockney (1937) | Dennis Hopper (1936) | John Humble (1944) | George Hurrell (1904-1992) | Shinsaku Izumi (1880-1941) | William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) | Arthur F. Kales (1882-1936) | Bobby Klein (1943) | Gary Leonard (1951) | Michael Light (1963) | Los Angeles County Health Department () | Mary Ellen Mark (1940) | Douglas McCulloh (1959) | Jerry McMillan (1963) | Willie Middlebrook (1957) | Don Milton () | Robert Mizer (1922-1992) | William Mortenson (1897-1965) | Karin Apollonia Müller (1963) | Leonard Nadel (1916-1990) | Don Normark (1928) | Ken Ohara (1942) | Catherine Opie (1961) | Pacific Electric Railway Company | Marion Palfi (1907-1978) | Maynard L. Parker (1900-1976) | C. C. Pierce (1861-1946) | Ernest M. Pratt (1876-1945) | Charles Puck (1882-1968) | Leland Rice (1940) | Herb Ritts (1952-2002) | Allen Ruppersberg (1944) | Edward Ruscha (1937) | Julius Shulman (1910) | Peter Stackpole (1913-1977) | Phil Stern (1919) | Stiffler & Gill () | Timothy Street-Porter (1939) | Studio "Dick" Whittington (1924-1978) | Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948) | Larry Sultan (1946) | John Swope (1908-1979) | Edmund Teske (1911-1996) | R. L. van Oosting (1899-1938) | Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) | Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) | Miles F. Weaver (1879-1932) | Robert Weingarten (1941) | Henry Wessel (1942) | Edward Weston (1886-1958) | Leigh Wiener (1929-1993) | Charles Williams (1908-1986) | Garry Winogrand (1928-1948) | Ida Wyman (1926) | Max Yavno (1911-1985)
Image: Max Yavno, 1949, Muscle Beach, The Huntington Library, San Marino.
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