When I was seventeen and photography was a lot younger I would sometimes see pictures of by a man named William Mortensen in the photography magazines I read. There was…
Author Andy Romanoff
It’s a simple idea really, “21st century art presented in extraordinary architectural settings” but it takes vision and labor to make it happen. Lisa and Mark Ames are a couple…
In the bright Los Angeles afternoon, hours before the official opening, the serious and wealthy collectors come. Brad Pitt walks around unbothered but not unnoticed. The streets are scarcely populated…
In part it’s the casual juxtaposition, the chance occurrence, the people that turn out when eighty major dealers from around the world bring their best to show. And then there…
They are very hard to look at, these pictures. Mainly, they come from about the time I was a little boy so I connect with them as a child might…
In addition to his long and successful career as a musician, Moby is a serious photographer. His house is filled with cameras and there are photographic books everywhere. Currently an…
The newly acquired Ernest Marquez Collection of photographs records Santa Monica’s transformation from rustic hamlet to international symbol of the California good life, with prints from the 1870s to the…
Without much public attention, a remarkable thing is happening. As libraries around the world digitize their photographic collections they lose the funding to store their physical archives. Only a handful…
In the end it was a celebration, a party for the artists, scenesters, art lovers and collectors who had discovered Hudson/Linc and made it a stopping place on the Los…
Two hundred and seventy-three exhibitors, almost twenty thousand visitors, panels, conferences, food trucks, happenings, free, oh, did I mention books, this year’s LA Art Book Fair was a vibrant and…