L8S ANG3LES
Exhibit
Mar 29, 2009 - Jun 30, 2009

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The inaugural exhibition of the Annenberg Space for Photography celebrated the breadth of contemporary photography through works by eight internationally renowned photographers whose images capture the complexity and vitality of the city of Los Angeles. L8S ANG3LES featured different genres of contemporary photographic exploration – architecture, portraiture, photojournalism and art – with interrelated themes weaving throughout. Through a relationship with the Los Angeles Times, L8S ANG3LES also featured the work of celebrated Times staff photographers and a selection of archival photographs of the city going back over 100 years.

L8S ANG3LES embodied the spirit of the Annenberg Foundation’s mission to improve the well being of the community through the exchange of ideas and innovative thinking, setting a vibrant tone for future exhibitions to follow.

Anne Wilkes Tucker, Special Advisor to the Annenberg Space for Photography and the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Featured Photographs

  • Andy Warhol
    Photo by: Douglas Kirkland
  • Björk
    Photo by: Douglas Kirkland
  • Hugh Jackman
    Photo by: Douglas Kirkland
  • Alli, Annie, Hannah, and Berit, all 13, before the first big party of the seventh grade, Edina, Minnesota.
    Photo by: Lauren Greenfield
  • The damas (maids of honor) go from the church to the reception in a Ford Explorer limousine at Ruby’s quinceañera, Huntington Park, California.
    Photo by: Lauren Greenfield
  • Mijanou and friends from Beverly Hills High School on Senior Beach Day, Will Rogers State Beach, Los Angeles, California.
    Photo by: Lauren Greenfield

Stories Behind the Photographs

  • To hear the click of the shutter and realize I had made a picture was an amazing thrill because, for me, the life of photographers was a fantasy life.
    Douglas Kirkland

    Douglas Kirkland

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Featured Photographers

 
  • Lauren Greenfield

    Lauren Greenfield

    Acclaimed Emmy-winning documentary photographer/filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture, gender and consumerism, as a result of her monographs Girl Culture, Fast Forward, THIN and other photographic works.

  • Catherine Opie

    Catherine Opie

    Catherine Opie is a photographer and photography professor at UCLA. Her work includes portrait series and American urban landscapes that range in format from large-scale color works to smaller black-and-white prints.

  • Douglas Kirkland

    Douglas Kirkland

    For five decades, Douglas Kirkland has photographed celebrities and fashion.

  • Genaro Molina

    Genaro Molina

    Genaro Molina’s career as a photojournalist includes working for the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Claremont Courier and the Sacramento Bee, before joining the staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1995.

  • Greg Gorman

    Greg Gorman

    For four decades, Greg Gorman has photographed celebrities in his signature black and white style.

  • John Baldessari

    John Baldessari

    Throughout his prolific career, John Baldessari has approached his art through adamantly non-traditional paths.

  • Julius Shulman

    Julius Shulman

    For over 72 years, Julius Shulman has played a seminal role in architectural photography.

  • Kirk McKoy

    Kirk McKoy

    Kirk D. McKoy is the Senior Features Photo Editor and Deputy for the Los Angeles Times.

  • Lawrence Ho

    Lawrence Ho

    Lawrence K. Ho immigrated to the United States from China in 1972.

  • Tim Street-Porter

    Tim Street-Porter

    Over the past three decades, Tim Street-Porter has photographed the city’s modernist architecture, often working with the same homes photographed by Julius Shulman.

Slideshow Night Photographers

 
  • Mark Laita

    Mark Laita

    Mark Laita has produced award-winning commercial work for clients such as Adidas, Apple and Mercedes-Benz.

  • Jill Greenberg

    Jill Greenberg

    Jill Greenberg’s work has been seen in such publications such as Harper’s and The New Yorker and served as covers for Time and Wired.

  • Sebastian Copeland

    Sebastian Copeland

    Sebastian Copeland is an award-winning explorer, photographer and author.

  • Kwaku Alston

    Kwaku Alston

    As an award-winning celebrity photographer, Kwaku Alston has made a career of working with beautiful people.

  • Art Streiber

    Art Streiber

    Art Streiber is a Los Angeles-based freelance photographer specializing in portrait, reportage, entertainment and advertising photography.

  • Bryce Duffy

    Bryce Duffy

    Born in British Columbia, Bryce Duffy’s worldview was influenced at an early age by his childhood experiences exploring the west with his parents and older brother.

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    Catherine Ledner

    Catherine Ledner grew up in eccentric New Orleans surrounded by positive, hardworking people.

  • Chris Mcpherson

    Chris Mcpherson

    Chris McPherson lives in Los Angeles. He doesnt shoot weddings. And dont even think about headshots.

  • Daniel Milnor

    Daniel Milnor

    Daniel Milnor is currently “Photographer at Large” for Blurb, Inc. the world’s premiere print-on-demand publisher.

  • Eric Curry

    Eric Curry

    Eric Curry was born in 1956 in Los Angeles, California.

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    Erik Boker

    Erik Boker is an artist from Los Angeles, by way of New York, Alabama, and Colorado, currently living and working in The Netherlands.

  • Jeff Dunas

    Jeff Dunas

    Jeff Dunas is an editorial & fine art photographer, Director of the Palm Springs Photo Festival and the New York Portfolio Review program at PhotoPlus Expo.

  • Jen Rosenstein

    Jen Rosenstein

    Jen Rosenstein is a photographer and director based in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Jim McHugh

    Jim McHugh

    Famous for his recent large format Polaroid prints of Los Angeles, Jim McHugh has been photographing common things in an uncommon manner for thirty years.

  • Joe Pugliese

    Joe Pugliese

    Los Angeles based portrait photographer.

  • Jona Frank

    Jona Frank

    Portrait photographer Jona Frank has worked extensively with youth culture.

  • Julia Dean

    Julia Dean

    Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, and founder of the Los Angeles Center of Photography, formerly The Julia Dean Photo Workshops.

  • Marc Lecureuil

    Marc Lecureuil

    Paris born, NYC-based photographer Marc Lecureuil’s career started in LA in the 1990’s, where he worked for the likes of Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz, and other big names in photography.

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    Maria Schriber

    A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Maria Schriber graduated from Brown University with a degree in American Studies in 2002.

  • Mathieu Grandjean

    Mathieu Grandjean

    Mathieu Grandjean is a French freelance photographer, specializing in social documentary and portraiture and has been living in Los Angeles for the past 6 years.

  • Mathieu Young

    Mathieu Young

    Mathieu Young is a commercial and reportage photographer based in Los Angeles.

  • Nicholas Alan Cope

    Nicholas Alan Cope

    Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College of Design.

  • Niels Alpert

    Niels Alpert

    Niels Alpert is a Brookyn based cinematographer. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in motion and still photography in the US and overseas.

  • Patrick Fraser

    Patrick Fraser

    Photographer Patrick Fraser relocated from London to Venice Beach, California in 1996.

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    Randi Berez

    Since graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, award winning photographer Randi Berez has developed a career specialising in sports and sports fashion.

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    Russ Quackenbush

    Russ Quackenbush creates visual images of humanity that reflect the qualities we cherish most in each other.

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    Sian Kennedy

    Sian Kennedy’s father was a professor of cultural anthropology and moved his family of four all over the world.

  • The Collaborationist

    The Collaborationist

    Jessica and Clark live in an old Craftsman house in Highland Park, Los Angeles. They take pictures together as The Collaborationist.

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    Tom Fowlks

    Tom Fowlks is a Los Angeles-based photographer.