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Calvin Hicks (photographer) Calvin Robert Hicks (1941-2012) was an African American photographer and gallerist, best known for founding The Black Photographers of California and its associated exhibition space, the Black Gallery, in Los Angeles, as well as for his classical nude portraiture from the 1970s.
Children. Daughter, Roshawn Hawley. Roland Charles (August 31, 1938 – May 26, 2000) was an African-American photographer and gallerist, best known for co-founding The Black Photographers of California and its associated exhibition space, the Black Gallery, in Los Angeles, among the first institutions by and for black photographers.
Dody Warren. Dody Weston Thompson (April 11, 1923 – October 14, 2012 [ 1]) was a 20th-century American photographer and chronicler of the history and craft of photography. She learned the art in 1947 and developed her own expression of “ straight ” or realistic photography, the style that emerged in Northern California in the 1930s.
The Annenberg Space for Photography (2009 - 2020) was an exhibition space in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles' Westside. Founded in March 2009, it was dedicated to displaying photographic works, ranging from artistic to journalistic, using both traditional photographic prints and modern digital techniques. [4]
Mark Ruwedel (born June 11, 1954) [1] is an American landscape photographer and educator. His books include Westward the Course of Empire, depicting the remains of abandoned railway lines in the landscape of the western United States and Canada; and Message from the Exterior, abandoned and decaying houses in desert communities around Los Angeles.
Herb Ritts. Herbert Ritts Jr. (August 13, 1952 – December 26, 2002) was an American fashion photographer and director known for his photographs of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black and white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture ...
Culture of Los Angeles. The culture of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse. The greater Los Angeles metro area has several notable art museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the J. Paul Getty Museum on the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and the ...
History. The Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies was founded in 1974 by seven photographers, [1] "to encourage the growth and appreciation of photography and to provide an infrastructure for study and exhibition". [2] Initially LACPS did not have a public space of its own. It held its programs at various venues, including Beyond Baroque ...