PROGRAMS >> EXHIBITIONS | DISCUSSIONS | PROJECTIONS | EVENTS | 2009 | 2010
The Month of Photography Los Angeles will deliver the most comprehensive celebration of Photography in Los Angeles. With the support of the Photography Community, MOPLA will showcase the work of 160 Photographers worldwide. The city of Los Angeles was incorporated in April 1850, 160 years ago. The theme for MOPLA 2010 is 160/160 - Celebrating 160 Years Through 160 Photographers.
Exhibitions: MOPLA will endorse and present a variety of photographic exhibitions occuring in April.
Discussions: Stimulating conversations to engage and inspire collectors, photographers, high school students, and everyone in between.
Projections: Through Pro'jekt LA, MOPLA's very own projection series, photography will be projected
on walls and outdoor spaces of Los Angeles.
MOPLA will also endorse a variety of photographic exhibitions and events that take place during the month of April. Join us as we celebrate the still image in both innovative and traditional ways!
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Thursday April 01
Illuminating Devices - Sarah Rossiter and Dorsey Dunn
Admission: FREE
Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rossiter and Dorsey Dunn will present a
large-scale installation of image and sound, transforming the gallery into
an elevated, floating landscape. Presented by den Contemporary Art Los Angeles
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Thursday April 01
Night Lights featuring Helen K. Garber, Bill Sosin, and Ginny Mangrum
Admission: FREE
Night Lights is a three-person exhibition featuring night photography by Helen K. Garber, Bill Sosin, and Ginny Mangrum. Artist talk 17th April, time TBA.
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Thursday April 01
Aurelien Froment and Ryan Gander
Admission: FREE
During April we will be exhibiting the work of Aurelien Froment, and French artist based in Dublin, and Ryan Gander, a London-based artist.
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Thursday April 01
Las Vegas Studio: Images From The Archives Of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Admission: FREE
In 1968, American architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, together with students from Yale University, made the city of Las Vegas the object of their study. Their findings, published in the 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas, are legendary, extending the categories of the ordinary, the ugly, and the social into architecture.
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Thursday April 01
Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990-2005)
Admission: $ 9.00, Seniors $ 6.00, Students $ 6.00. MOLAA Members FREE, Children under 12 years FREE
Curated and organized by MOLAA, Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990-2005) is the first survey exhibition to be presented in the Los Angeles area of Latin American photography and photo-based art generated between 1990 and 2005.
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Thursday April 01
A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans
Admission: FREE, Parking $15 or Free after 5pm
Frederick H. Evans (English, 1853–1943) began pursuing photography in the mid-1880s. Focusing on architecture, he paid particular attention to medieval cathedrals in England and France.
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Thursday April 01
Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim
Admission: FREE, Parking $15 or Free after 5pm
Highlighting images by three contemporary photographers—each of whom implements a panoramic viewpoint to examine a specific urban environment—this exhibition explores the essential rhythms of three cities while showing the range of technologies used by photographic artists today.
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Thursday April 01
Night Lights: Venice/Venezia
Admission: FREE
I grew up with an 8" x 10" photograph of my great aunt and uncle sitting in a gondola in the canal in front of the Doge Palace, marked Venice, Italy October 24, 1922.
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Thursday April 01
If Only O.J. Had Called Me...
Admission: FREE
David Hume Kennerly - A Forty Year Photographic Retrospective, 1966-2010. Featuring rare, vintage and inscribed work from the Pulitzer Prize winning photographer's personal archive.
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Thursday April 01
Tony Duran: D.I.F
Admission: FREE
In an industry that all focus goes to those in front of the camera, it is rare to catch a glimpse of someone responsible for creating those iconic images, Tony Duran.
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Thursday April 01
4 X 14: Uncommon Imagery - An Exhibition of New Work from 14 Southern California Photographers
Admission: FREE
4 X 14: Uncommon Imagery is a group show featuring the work of Southern California photographers who have been developing their unique and personal visions in contemporary photography.
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Thursday April 01
Evelyn Hofer - RoseGallery
Admission: FREE
Evelyn Hofer (1922-2009) began work as a photographer in the mid 1940’s after fleeing from her native Germany and beginning a tutelage under two Swiss photographers
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Thursday April 01 , 7pm - 9pm
Legends of Jazz Photography
Admission: FREE
Legends of Jazz Photography - Opening Reception for Herman Leonard.
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Thursday April 01
Ere Is My Head
Admission: FREE
Ere Is My Head, brings together 18 selected works by the artist Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili.
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Friday April 02
How We Live
Admission:
How We Live documents the face of poverty in Armenia as told through the personal stories of 9 families living along the margins. Photographer Sara Anjargolian traveled to Armenia last July and spent time with numerous families faced with the plight of poverty. She documented their lives and stories which provided the impetus for the How We Live project.
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Saturday April 03
Paul Caponigro: Landscapes/Still Lives
Admission: FREE
Paul Caponigro is renowned as one of America’s most significant master photographers
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Saturday April 03
Xto Nude Image Awards Winners
Admission: FREE
The Grand and 2nd Prize winners for photography and illustration in this international online competition will receive $2000/$1000 and be announced at the winners celebration April 3, 2010 7pm-10pm.
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Saturday April 03
Playground
Admission: FREE
Robert Berman Gallery is pleased to present Playground the second solo exhibition of photographs by Los Angeles based collaborating photographers, Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French.
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Tuesday April 06
In Focus: Tasteful Pictures
Admission: FREE, Parking $15
Photographers have been enticed by the subject of food since the earliest years of the medium.
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Thursday April 08 , 6pm-9pm
PDN Emerging 30
Admission: FREE
Photo District News magazine’s PDN’s 30, Our Choice of New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, is a look at up-and-coming photographers from around the world and is published annually in PDN's March issue.
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Friday April 09 , 6:30pm - 9:30pm
On | Pause - Photography in the Creative Work Spaces of Commercial Production Houses
Admission: FREE with RSVP to rsvp@kentcollective.com
A Night of Seduction featuring the work of Dean Karr and Mark Edward Harris' Anatomy of a Playboy Centerfold.
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Saturday April 10 , 5pm - 7pm
Pieter Hugo
Admission: FREE
Pieter Hugo’s series Nollywood portrays archetypal characters from the third-largest film industry in the world, “Nollywood” in Nigeria.
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Saturday April 10 , 7pm - 10pm
Diversity in Development
Admission: FREE
Featuring the work of Franklin Londin, Willa Mamet, Jad Najjar, Mike Saijo, Gwen Samuels, Aline Smithson, Amanda Keller-Konya, and Paul Papanek. Artist talk on April 17th, time TBA.
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Sunday April 11
15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol
Admission: Adults $12, Students $10, Children Free
Featuring more than 150 works primarily from the Orange County Museum of Art’s significant collection of photography, 15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol explores a diverse range of portraits from early modernism through contemporary practices.
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Sunday April 11
Meg Madison - Rightsizing Narrative
Admission: FREE
Black and white diptychs that explore our cultural language of story telling.
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Thursday April 15 , 7pm - 10pm
Robert Buelteman - The Evolutionary Image
Admission: Free with RSVP to events@aandi.com
Distinguished photographer Robert Buelteman will be giving a lecture titled "The Evolutionary Image" on his technique of "cameraless photography".
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Thursday April 15
A Retrospective on the work of Robert Stivers
Admission: FREE
A retrospective on the work of photographer Robert Stivers.
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Thursday April 15 , 7pm - 10pm
The Art of Music Photography
Admission: FREE
drkrm/gallery/west is pleased to announce it first show, ever!
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Friday April 16 , 8pm - 11pm
i Spy With My Plastic Eye
Admission: FREE
i Spy With My Plastic Eye, is a group exhibition visualized by photographer, Astor Morgan.
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Saturday April 17
Miracle Mile Art Walk and Artist Talks
Admission: FREE
Four times per year, The Miracle Mile Art Walk features over 40 galleries in the Miracle Mile Arts Dirtrict, one of Los Angeles' most well-known centers of art and culture!!!
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Saturday April 17
Staff Exhibition
Admission:
Translight Photography Center will be exhibiting two local Los Angeles photographers Michael Gotz and Christine Caldwell on April 17th & 18th, 2010 11am-6pm in conjunction with The Brewery Artwalk.
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Saturday April 17 , 3pm - 8pm
Age Looks at Aging
Admission: FREE
What if we could transform the conversation about aging in pictures?
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Wednesday April 21 , 7pm
Pictures on Pico
Admission:
From La Brea to Fairfax, portraits of business owners, friends and familiar faces on Pico Blvd.
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Saturday April 24 , 11am - 7pm
Fresh Take
Admission: FREE
Fresh Take showcases the personal and meaningful work of photographers, most of whom are without gallery representation or for whom representation is of a mostly commercial context.
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Saturday April 24 , 7pm - 10pm
Jeff Antebi - Haiti: Before 1.21.10
Admission: FREE with RSVP to Haiti.RSVP@gmail.com
An open reception will be held for the public on Saturday, April 24.
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Saturday April 24 , 11am - 7pm
Fresh Fairs
Admission: FREE
Fresh fairs features photography exhibitors, conversations, and dialogues.
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Saturday April 24 , 5pm - 9pm
Driving Desire
Admission: FREE
Cocktail Reception. In Los Angeles, driving is a daily prayer, a morning renewal.
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Monday April 26 , 6pm - 9pm
On | Pause - Photography in the Creative Work Spaces of Commcercial Production Houses
Admission: FREE with RSVP to rsvp@kentcollective.com
Prettybird Photographers Retrospective of Photography.
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Wednesday April 28 , 7pm - 10pm
Timeless; Composed and Arranged from Addis, Detroit and Recife. Photos by Eric Coleman and B+
Admission:
Timeless; Composed and Arranged from Addis, Detroit and Recife. Photos by Eric Coleman and B+
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Wednesday April 28 , 7pm - 10pm
Discovering Hope: Faces of the Holocaust
Admission: FREE, Parking is $10 at UCLA Lot #2
A 90 piece documenting the faces and stories of Holocaust survivors across the United States.
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Thursday April 29 , 7pm - 10pm
MOPLA Group Show LA
Admission: FREE with RSVP to groupshow@monthofphotography.com
MOPLA Group Show. Featuring the selected photographers of Los Angeles. Co-curated by Hossein Farmani of the Lucie Foundation and Dee DeLara of Smashbox Studios.
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Friday April 30 , 5pm - 8pm
Rebecca Gaal - Mad World
Admission: FREE
Opening Reception Friday April 30th 5-8pm
Exhibition will share Gaal's journalism work from Nepal, Morocco, India and highlight Kolkata Rescue, an NGO situated in the slums of Kokata, India.
Rebecca Gaal will also be showcasing two new book
projects:
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Friday April 30 , 7pm - 10pm
Transplants
Admission: FREE
THIS gallery presents Transplants.
Featuring the work from Adam Amengual, Aaron Farley, Amanda Friedman, Sian Kennedy, Liz Kuball, Chris McPherson, Scott Pommier, Ryan Schude, Emily Shure, Claire & Jeremy Weiss.
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