Exactly a month ago today THIS, Los Angeles opened the doors to their Highland Park gallery/artist space for their inaugural show These Friends, which featured the work of their amazing artist friends. Tomorrow night they close their doors on These Friends ready to welcome some new ones.
Click here to view and purchase pieces from These Friends.
Non-pornographic photos of Japanese people getting some in a public park during the seventies never looked as mysterious or beautiful as Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park, reintroduced to contemporary audiences by West Hollywood’s M+B.
See a provocative preview of the show here.
And read more from M+B here:
“M+B is pleased to present the West Coast premiere exhibition of Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park. Shot in three Tokyo parks during the early seventies, The Park is a series of black and white photographs capturing couples meeting up for clandestine trysts and, more provocatively, the voyeurs who came out to watch them. First exhibited in 1979 at Komai Gallery in Tokyo, the uproar surrounding his methods caused these photographs to be hidden from the public for the next 28 years.”
MANIFESTEQUALITY, one of the biggest and most important contemporary art shows to come to Los Angeles in recent memory, holds it’s closing night party tonight in Hollywood. The massive show, which features works from over 200 artists in the name of equal rights, held it’s opening night’s party on Wednesday (coverage to come) and is worth checking out and supporting. That is, of course, if you enjoy art and supporting other human beings.
Good news sports, photography and sports photography lovers! The Annenberg Space for Photography has extended the Sport: Iooss & Leifer exhibit showcasing the amazing photos of two living legends, Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer. The first ever two-man show at the Annenberg features some of the most iconic sports imagery ever photographed displayed up close and on a larger than life scale.
Overview of the exhibit here, including details on the Annenberg’s digital feature and videos.
Also…click here to listen to KCRW’s intimate interview with Neil Leifer.
The following is a brief sampling of the genius eyes and timing of Iooss and Leifer. (text via The Annenberg Space for Photography)
“Neil Leifer’s photography career has spanned almost 50 years. Specializing in sports photography, Leifer’s photos have regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, People and, most often, Sports Illustrated. Leifer’s pictures have graced over 200 covers of Time Inc. publications — 170 at Sports Illustrated, and 40 at TIME Magazine. Leifer has published 15 books. The most recent two, Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball (2007) and Guts and Glory: The Golden Age of American Football 1958-1978 (2008) both published by Taschen, are already considered classics. Leifer photographed his favorite subject, Muhammad Ali, on at least 70 separate occasions, including 35 fights. Leifer is now a full-time filmmaker. He has produced and/or directed two features, five documentaries and eight short films.”
Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston II
Ali vs. Williams
Joe Namath
Reggie Jackson
Vince Lombardi
“Walter Iooss is an award-winning legend in sports photography, best known for his nearly 300 Sports Illustrated covers, as well as his portraits of famous athletes like Michael Jordan, Ken Griffey, Jr., Brett Favre, Joe Montana and Wayne Gretzky. In his career, he has covered virtually every major sports event, including all 43 Super Bowls. In 1982, his project on athletes working their way to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles resulted in publication of the book, Shooting for the Gold. He has published a number of other books, including Baseball, Football and Sports People, and created a masterful photo essay with Michael Jordan, Rare Air, which topped The New York Times Best Sellers list. His latest work, Athlete, was released in May 2008, and marks his 14th book. In 2004, Iooss received the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sports Photography.”
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
John McEnroe
“The Catch”
Brooklyn Decker (what? Sports Illustrated swimsuit models count too!)
No, not THE Continental with Christopher Walken, the Continental Gallery downtown which is hosting my fellow Academy of Art film alum Matthias Koenigswieser and five of his contemporaries in the group show, Focus Daily. Detailed info on the show here.
From the Continental:
“Focus Daily renders the works of six young contemporary artists – Lukas Gansterer, Matthias Koenigswieser, Ulrich Nausner, Thomas Rhube, Clemens Wolf from Austria and Joseph Kosir from Netherlands - whose prolific and joint collaboration lead to their first collective exhibition in Los Angeles. Diverse media (photography, video, installation and painting) merge to set conceptual images of an exposed contemporaneousness, engaging relations between individual and outer world, investigating and challenging dominant rules and social conventions, exploring new communicative visual imagery.”
UPDATE: More from Ed’s Toy Machine blog:
“I went minimal for this show, a departure from my usual chaotic display. But there was a theme and concept for this show that I stuck to. All photos were shot from a moving car, and all hung in a straght line.”
Last week Ed opened his latest photo show The Seconds Pass at Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton to the usual large gathering of skaters, photographers and art appreciators alike. And what we all saw was a show that was slightly different for Ed, as in streamlined opposed to his signature clustering style, more “in the moment” snapshots and far less nude/explicit imagery than what viewers have grown accustomed to over the years. All in all, Ed’s The Second Pass is definitely worth a second pass.
Show runs at Roberts & Tilton through April 3, 2010.
Many thanks to my friend Yoshi Shimura of Megane Zine and Star Graphics fame for providing the following photos from the opening. Please click here to see Yoshi’s entire set.
With artist/skateboarder Ed Templeton’s show The Seconds Pass passing through Los Angeles tonight, I thought it would be apro-pro to point you towards WKE and Aaron Rose’s ongoing D.I.Y. America series which is currently focusing on skateboarding and creativity.
(click corresponding images to view episodes)
Painter, photographer, pro skateboarder, loving husband, Toy Machine leader, vegan. Ed Templeton is many a thing. But as Ed describes himself and his artistic brethren in our film Beautiful Losers, “In titling the show Beautiful Losers, that gave it a label and people are now ‘oh, you’re a beautiful loser’. Well you can’t tag me as a one thing or the other, you can’t tag anyone in the show as just a painter, as just a photographer…we’re just artists.”
Ed’s The Seconds Pass passes through Roberts & Tilton in Culver City starting this Friday.
Read and see more from the mind of Ed at his Toy Machine blog here.
Lomography lovers in Los Angeles:
“On February 18th, 2010, the first Lomography Gallery Store and official Lomography Embassy will open its doors on the West Coast! To mark the event and usher in the new era of Lomography in Los Angeles, we are planning a huge celebration with an ocean of drinks, live Mariachi music, tacos and tamales, and even dancers! And we would like to invite you to join the fiesta! The festivities will begin at 7:00pm, and run until we are out of drinks! Space on the guestlist is limited, so to ensure your spot at the party, send an RSVP to shopla@lomography.com now!”
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