Lowlife
Photographs
by Scot Sothern
On
display concurrently in the Project Room:
One Night at the Ivar
Photographs by Ryan Herz
Doll
House
Richard Tomlinson
Video Installation
16mm/DVD, b & w 1970
Also
featuring:
The Business of Pleasure:
New York City Brothels
Photographs by Philip
Fagan
April 10 -
May 23, 2010
Reception
for the artists Saturday April 10, 7-10pm
2121 San Fernando Road Suite
3
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Tel 323.223.6867
drkrmgallery@gmail.com
Hours
Tue-Fri 11-5
Sat 12-5 Sun 1-4
Gallery Information
drkrm/gallery
is excited to present Lowlife, a photographic journey though
the motels and back alleys of street prostitution. Lowlife
will be on display April 10th through May 23rd with an Opening Reception
Saturday April 10th at 7pm.
Photographer
Scot Sothern first patronized the marketplace of curbside prostitution
on a prurient whim. He dove to the murky depths of sexual obsession, and
five years later resurfaced-- shell shocked and without excuse. While
there, trusty Nikon in hand, Sothern snapped what he saw: full-frontal
X-rated realities, fine-art documents, black and white, pathos and pizzazz.
This exhibition contains graphic nudity and explicit content.
Lowlife
is an illustrated memoir of dysfunction, a confession of a befuddled white
guy maintaining a precarious connection to propriety and fatherhood while
side-tripping into noirish infatuations. Sothern's images, shot mostly
in Southern California between 1986 and 1990, record the existence of
these disenfranchised Americans, men and women, hawking souls for the
price of a Big Mac and a fix, struggling in a culture that deems them
criminal and expendable. These timeless portraits reveal the never changing
plight of the street prostitute.
A second generation photographer, Scot Sothern was behind a camera and in the darkroom from an early age. In the 1960s, rebellious and angry, he learned to use photography as a weapon while hiding behind the viewfinder. The photography on display throughout Lowlife is at times explicit, The images bring to mind the works of early twentieth-century photographer E.J. Bellocq, as well as contemporary photographers Nan Golden and Diane Arbus.
Photographer Scot Sothern
Interview:
Scott Sothern
Read
Scot Sothern's Blog
Buy the Book-Lowlife
by Scot Sothern
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INFO
In
The Project Room
One Night at the Ivar
Photographs by Ryan Herz
Ryan
Herz Ivar Theatre Hollywood 1980
Ryan
Herz Ivar Theatre Hollywood 1980
Richard
Tomlinson Doll House, still from 16mm b&w film 1970
