Overlooking
Hill Street, Los Angeles 1940
20x24" Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Fiber Print
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Palm Trees, S. Kenmore Ave, Los Angeles.1940
20x24" Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Fiber Print
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Olympic Trailer Court, Santa Monica 1940
16x20" Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Fiber Print
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Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills.1940
16x20" Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Fiber Print
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Sixth Street & Broadway, Los Angeles 1940
16x20" Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Fiber Print
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The Daylight Special, Burbank 1940
20x24" Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Fiber Print
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Ocean Park Pier Promenade, Santa Monica.1940
20x24" Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Fiber Print
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drkrm
is honored to present Ansel Adams Los Angeles, rarely seen photographs
that reveal the lost landscape and lifestyle of a prewar Los Angeles.
These nostalgic images from the archives of The Los Angeles Public
Library Ansel Adams Collection represent Ansel Adams as a photojournalist
on assignment for Fortune Magazine in 1940. Ansel Adams Los Angeles
with the cooperation of the The Ansel Adams
Publishing Rights Trust, will be on display from February 18 through April 21, 2012.
"Notoriously
a stickler for production detail, one imagines the present-day printer
in the darkroom having a Shakespearean wrestling match with Adams’
ghost. Burning and dodging and arguing with the spirit of his dead
hero, merging his own artistry with his forefather’s intentions,
teasing out what felt the most like what Adams would have been looking
for, literally channeling him -- but is that really any different
from just making the best prints he possibly could, based in no
small part on what he’d learned from looking at Adams in the
first place? It seems the drkrm. folks went looking for Adams too
-- and they absolutely found him." --Shana
Nys Dambrot, Whitehot Magazine
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In 1940 Los Angeles had a population of 1.5 million. The cost of gas was
10 cents and a new car was $700. The U.S. began rearming for World War
II and the prestigious Ansel Adams was commissioned by Fortune Magazine
to photograph a series of images for an article covering the aviation
industry in the Los Angeles area. For the project, Adams took over 200
black & white photographs showing everyday life, businesses, street
scenes and a variety of other subjects. But when the article, City
of the Angels, appeared in the March 1941 issue, only a few of the
images were included.
In the early 1960s Adams rediscovered the photographs among papers at
his home in Carmel and donated them to the Los Angeles Public Library.
He wrote in a letter: "The weather was bad over a rather long period
and none of the pictures were very good... I would imagine that they represent
about $100.00 minimum value... At any event, I do not want them back."
But as many critics will agree, sometimes an artist is not always the
best judge of their own work.
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) created some of the most influential photographs
ever made; he was one of the 20th century's leading exponents of environmental
values. It seems that every third family in America has an Adams’
poster on the wall, images that were difficult to make but easy to love.
His images portray a romanticized and unspoiled Western American landscape,
but Ansel Adams Los Angeles is a whole other body of work that
is rarely discussed, let alone seen.
drkrm with the cooperation of the The
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and The Ansel Adams
Publishing Rights Trust, will create and exhibit new silver-gelatin
prints made from the original seventy year old negatives. These 60 dramatic black and white
limited-edition photographs, on display to the public for the first time,
will be offered for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting
the LAPL.
contact info@drkrm.com
VIEW IMAGES HERE
Ansel
Adams Los Angeles is
part of Pacific Standard Time. Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented
collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern
California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A.
art scene. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific
Standard Time will take place for six months beginning October 2011.
Pacific
Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is
Bank of America.
drkrm is an exhibition space
dedicated to the display and survey of popular cultural images, fine art
photography, cutting edge and alternative photographic processes.
info@drkrm.com
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