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ULTRA-ANGELES
Kodachrome in 3-D
The Stereo Photography of Jack Laxer
18"
x 24" Exhibition Posters
signed limited edition $40 ea
Printed on 80# coated cover weight paper.
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drkrm.gallery
is pleased to announce the exhibition of Ultra-Angeles:
Kodachrome in 3-D, The Stereo Photography of Jack Laxer.
An opening reception honoring the photographer will be held
on Saturday, August 15, from 7-10 pm. The exhibit will be
on view through September 6, 2009.
Ultra-Angeles features rarely seen images of Southern California's
commercial landscape from 1952-1969 -- a dreamworld of Googie
coffee shops, tail-finned cars, and sleek office towers--
in stunning stereo 3-D and vivid full color Kodachrome.
Click here to listen to an interview with curator Alan
Leib
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Many notable
architects including Paul Williams, William Cody, and the
masters of the Modern California Coffee Shop, Armet &
Davis, hired 3-D photographer Jack Laxer to document their
newly completed works. Using a specially adapted Stereo Realist
camera, Laxer’s lens revealed a vivid depth filled world,
with a precision and artistry unseen before or since in the
realm of stereo photography.
Like
Julius Shulman, Laxer’s primary subject matter was the
ultramodern architecture of midcentury America. However, unlike
Shulman’s famous black and white 2-D images of private
residential oases, Laxer’s work documented the ultramodern
Main Streets of Los Angeles in a pristine palette of Kodachrome
colors with a hyper-exaggerated stereo depth.
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Laxer's
progressive subject matter perfectly embodies the spirit of
modernism, both as an artistic movement as well as an everyday
reality in postwar Los Angeles. His amazing views offer a
full-color, 3-D glimpse into a world that no longer exists,
even as we drive by it every day.
Guest curator Alan Leib is the Chairman of the Los Angeles
Conservancy's Modern Committee, and one of LA's leading
cultural activists. Mr. Leib has led successful battles to
preserve many of LA's most important modern buildings, and
created, co-produced and hosted the Conservancy's Built
by Becket and and 3D-LA events, the latter being
an IMAX theater presentation of Mr. Laxer's Ultra-Angeles
era work.
Gallery events are free and open to the public.
PR
CONTACT: Jay Lopez 213.595.7419
jay@jaylopez.net
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