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Judy Graeme is LA Observed's resident photographer and student of art history, with an emphasis on photography. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and has shot news, features and fashion for Time, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, W and California magazine. Email
The Los Angeles artist grew up near downtown and named her newest exhibit after the Spanish and Japanese words for dreams.
When an important photographer like Penn works for this many years, people are bound to be affected on different levels. I know I have been.
Jo Ann Callis is one of the few living artists to be featured in a Getty exhibition. Her students are impressed.
When do we ever get to appreciate their work? Now we can — and help public schools too.
Jessie Gentry is fascinated by Los Angeles' grittier history, including murder scenes. Next in the Observing an L.A. Photographer series.
Last week in Arizona I got a taste of Manny mania and the reality was even more intriguing than the media hype. I stood inches away from the star hitter and had the strongest urge to touch his hair.
I got a little teary when I heard that Richard Jenkins was nominated for a best actor Oscar for "The Visitor." I met him when I was a photography student at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
Legendary 19th-century photographer Carleton Watkins, who is the subject of an exhibition at the Getty, traveled hard miles around California with a simple motto: stand "where the view looks best."
Monica Almeida has the perspective of a native Angeleno who photographs Los Angeles for an East Coast newspaper: the New York Times.
The late photographer shot some of the most iconic images of Los Angeles, and you can see some of them now at the Huntington.
Charles Brittin's images of 1950s and '60s Los Angeles — especially the art avant-garde and Venice Beach before money arrived — might finally bring him the fame he deserves.
LAPL senior librarian Carolyn Kozo Cole and volunteers are pulling together photos that tell the history of Los Angeles' lost age as a manufacturing power. From tire plants to perfume factories, It's the historical record of "a beautiful subject," she says.
Photographer Joyce Campbell gave us a fresh way of viewing neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Each of the images was made using soil she collected on forays around the city.
Until I read Steve Martin's enjoyable new memoir, "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life," I never would have connected him with Diane Arbus. She photographed circus freaks and transvestites. He always seemed more straight.
Our booth was the best place to hide from the vultures hovering outside. Lunch was ruined anyway, so the course of action was obvious. "Why don't you guys take our table," I offered. Katherine Heigl accepted with a smile.
Some of the most heartfelt, gut-wrenching — and sometimes simply beautiful — street photography in Los Angeles is being created by low-income teenagers who meet once a week after school at the St. Francis Center on Hope Street in Downtown.
The just opened exhibit "Julius Shulman's Los Angeles" at the LAPL's Getty Gallery is a love letter (albeit a complex one) from Shulman to the city he has called home since 1920.
For 27 years Iris Schneider took pictures for the Times. Now she's exploring the city on her own.
Edward Weston tried to expunge Los Angeles from his memory late in life, but he created many important photographs here. Some of them are coming to the Getty this month.
That's it for me. Harper's Bazaar lost me for good with this month's cover. Can't say I didn't warn them....
My 17-year-old daughter and I have many things in common, but perhaps the most surprising is our mutual deep affection for Dustin Hoffman.
Manhattan Beach's most notorious lingerie model is back from holiday and ready for her close-up.
"Getty Underground" is an in-house art show of work by museum employees — from curators to receptionists. They do it every two years, but only staffers and selected visitors ever get to see it.
I am going through what might be the most terrifying phase a parent in Los Angeles must endure. I am...
I like fashion magazines, I admit it. I've had a subscription to Vogue for as long as I can remember...
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| Steve Jones, the self-proclaimed Sire of Wilshire (a nod to the physical address of his former home at Indie 103.1 FM), is back on the air!
| She gaped at me like I was living history -- Miss Jane Pittman come to put her withered lips to the "Young Only" fountain straw of ageism.
As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
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