If you haven’t already seen it, this is your last week to head over to the Annenberg Space for Photography for its inaugural exhibition, “L8S ANG3LES.” The show comprises work by seven master L.A. photographers, including Lauren Greenfield, who is one of the few women photographers in the exhibition.
“L8S ANG3LES,” which closes on June 28, also features Catherine Opie, fresh off of her major exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York earlier this year; John Baldessari; Julius Shulman; Tim Street-Porter; Douglas Kirkland; and Greg Gorman. In addition, “L8S ANG3LES” will display archival photos of the city that date back a century, as well as photojournalism from the Los Angeles Times by Lawrence Ho, Carolyn Cole, Kirk McKoy, and Genaro Molina.
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, explains in the exhibition’s press release that “L8S ANG3LES” celebrates “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’ features different genres of contemporary photographic exploration—architecture, portraiture, photojournalism, and art—with interrelated themes weaving throughout.”
Admission to the Annenberg Space for Photography, which is located in Century City, is free. For more details, visit http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/index.asp
This photo, from Lauren Greenfield’s breakthrough 1998 series “Girl Culture,” is part of the “L8S ANG3LES” exhibition at the Annenberg (from left): Alli, Annie, Hannah, and Berit, all 13, dressed up before the first big party of the seventh grade in Edina, an affluent suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The most popular girls at school, these friends spent three hours helping each other get ready for the party. Only a few miles from the biggest mall in America, 7th graders here are not worried about gangs or school violence but about being popular and fitting in.
