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"White Heat
The Unequivocal Geometry of Los Angeles is Captured in a New Monograph
The arresting lines and bright facades of Los Angeles’ architectural landscape are captured in these stark black-and-white images from photographer Nicholas Alan Cope. Taken from Whitewash—a monograph due for release by Powerhouse Books early next month—the images look to portray the dramatic contrasts created by the interplay of the city’s understated modernist structures and the bleaching effect of the severe California sunlight. “My work as a photographer began by focusing on the essential components of Los Angeles architecture and I spent two years working to create a set of parameters for photographing the city,” explains Cope, whose work has featured in Vogue Japan, GOOD magazine and Interview, with commercial clients including Toms shoes, HBO, Virgin Atlantic and Free People. “This is Los Angeles as its most stripped down and raw.” Whitewash comes with a foreword from Californian fashion designer Rick Owens, included here.
I moved to Paris from Los Angeles 10 years ago and haven’t been back since. But this is exactly how I remember it. Bright hot incessant clear light, casting blackety-black shadows from Brutalist blocks that take the history of architecture and silently reduce and contain it like lunar tombs. Or Aztec temples morphed into foam-core cartoons.
This kind of light makes decisions easier, more black and white. Good vs bad, pure vs impure, aspiration vs collapse. Determined grim optimism vs self indulgent despair. The suggestion of an old Hollywood monolithic black-and-white movie set encourages self invention and self consciousness as you make your way down an imaginary long white staircase. There’s not another living soul on the set and the spotlight is on you, wiping out any flaw or imperfection, hallucinating yourself into who you wanna be...
Exactly how I remember it...
Rick Owens, November 2012"
Originally posted by Shucks
it's like cocaine, only heavier. and legal.
Originally posted by interest1
I don't live in the past. But I do have a vacation home there.
faust, it's only too easy: for my atheist friends, it's the impotence or outright maleficence of religion; for my religious friends, an indifferent world ignoring the beauty of a spirituality which nonetheless continues to envelop all manner of brutality; and for everybody else, it's a thought-provoking dialectic
faust, it's only too easy: for my atheist friends, it's the impotence or outright maleficence of religion; for my religious friends, an indifferent world ignoring the beauty of a spirituality which nonetheless continues to envelop all manner of brutality; and for everybody else, it's a thought-provoking dialectic
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
[QUOTE=ulrich133;454509]I finally bought The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China the other day...can't wait for it to finally arrive :)
DO NOT QUOTE IMAGES ON THE SAME PAGE
those pieces are stunningly beautiful. I went to an exhibit a while back that showcased a couple of those. The miniscule details actually require you to stare motionless for at least a minute to focus and see it all. Looks like a great read!
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