L.A. Object: Selected Photographs
10 September - 22 October 2011
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Opening Reception Saturday, September 10th, 6 – 8pm
Roberts & Tilton is pleased to announce L.A. Object: Selected
Photographs. The exhibition features photographs by Bruce Talamon and
Harry Drinkwater, included in the 2011 publication, L.A. Object &
David Hammons Body Prints. The publication follows Roberts & Tilton
(Los Angeles) and Tilton Gallery’s (New York) 2007/2006 exhibitions of
the same title. Harry Drinkwater was born in 1919 in Napa Valley, CA.
Based in Venice Beach for over sixty years, Harry Drinkwater was the
official photographer for Noah Purifoy’s 1966 group exhibition 66 Signs
of Neon. A graduate of the Fred Archer School of Photography,
Drinkwater’s stylized work belongs to a postwar scene linked not only to
Los Angeles’ African American community, but also to the city’s broader
jazz, beatnik, and mid-century design movements. Bruce W. Talamon is a
Los Angeles-based photographer working in advertising and publicity for
feature film projects. He especially enjoys the problem solving
involved in capturing action sequences and has a reputation for always
coming back with the shot. But before movies, he was documenting
musicians and artists. In the early 1970s he met David Hammons. David
invited him to document his work and never asked him to put his camera
down. That first visit and collaboration resulted in a forty-year
friendship that, no matter how long the time apart always immediately
picks up from where they left off.
Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00am – 6:00pm.
For additional information, please contact Lauren Kabakoff at lauren@robertsandtilton.com or 323.549.0223.
Roberts & Tilton is a Participating Gallery of Pacific Standard
Time. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings
together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern
California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of
the birth of the L.A. art scene. For further details, please visit
pacificstandardtime.org
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