Peter Lippman was born in Miami and has worked in San Francisco for the last 15 years. His passion [no doubt] is to document his life and experiences through photography (he’s been so doing so since the age of 12) yielding a style that unintentionally combines elements of portraiture, landscape and photojournalism. His [...]

Words and Photography: Phil Tarley

MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA AT THE LA ART SHOWDesignated as Art Month by the City of Los Angeles, January heated up Los Angeles with a sultry blaze of world-class winter art shows. Three big exhibitions and their attendant glamorous art-parties, replete with art-stars, dazzled a city and its inhabitants, hungry for [...]

Art Basel Miami Beach
Words and Photography: Phil Tarley

INSIDE AN ART BOX AT THE MAIN SHOW, ART BASEL MIAMI BEACHIt’s BIG. It’s bold. There is no way to see it all. Art from Los Angeles was among some of the most powerful works to be seen at the shows that surrounded Art Basel Miami Beach. [...]

WORDS Phil Tarley
IMAGES David LaChapelle, Courtesy Fred Torres Collaborations
Phosphorescent, over-saturated color pours out of his mind’s eye and filters through a mad-hysterical kind of Photoshop-ed synesthesia. Sex and sensuality, political commentary, and pop iconography fuse together in David LaChapelle’s wondrous, sometimes numinous world of epic, large-format photography.
Exhilarating and exhausting (excess is never enough), many of [...]

The 20th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition & artLA projects
LA’s Longest Running Art Fair Joins artLA projects
Thursday, January 13, 2011 through Monday, January 17, 2011
Opening Reception benefits the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at LACMA
photo l.a. XX | artLA projects at the Santa Monica Civic Center, January 13-17
In recent years, Los Angeles has experienced [...]