Forcing Nature Tree in Los Angeles

by Hass, George; Nelson, Arty; Peter, Carolyn; McCourt, James

• ISBN13: 9781593730505
• ISBN10: 1593730500
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-13
• Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing Inc

Summary

Reprocessed with the latest computer technology, George Haas' superb photography evokes the sense of place that is Los Angeles' famously artificial landscape, most of which, given three weeks without watering, would dry up and blow away. This cutting-edge art photography in the grand tradition of both American documentary and landscape photography reprocessed with 21st century photography.

Author Biography

George Haas is a Los Angelan portraitist, film-maker and photographer who works in the grand tradition of American documentary and landscape photography.Arty Nelson writes about art for the LA Weekly, contributed an essay to Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture and is the author of one novel, Technicolor PulpCarolyn Peter is Associate Curator at the Hammer Museum of Los Angeles. She is author of A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope and has contributed essays to numerous books and catalogues including Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000James McCourt, author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz, the tale of the ultimate diva, has been for four decades a frequent to Los Angeles. He has often written on the city's history and culture, most recently in Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture 1447-1985, and in Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake, the continuing saga of Hollywood megastar Kaye Wayfaring. He lives in New york, Washington,DC and Crossmolina, County Mayo, Ireland