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VICKI WHICKER PHOTO EXHIBITION 10.4.13
From Hollywood scenester/successful LA Gear shoe designer to rural East Coast artist, in Vicki Whicker's own words: "'Found a farm on Facebook. 'Bought it sight unseen. Moved from L.A. to Central NY....
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ROAN ANTELOPES
Ink wash printed on textured paper, circa the 1980s by me from a photo in a library book. I've always drawn from photographs since I was three years old, then I took the photos myself for same having...
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CS&N's THIRD GIG EVER, and with Y, 1969
At Woodstock, Stephen Stills told the audience: "This is the second time we've ever played in front of people, man! And we're scared shitless!" My very long-lens telephoto pic is from the very next...
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R.I.P. LOU REED
We'll phrase in the hypothetical and make it fiction. They were Los Angeles college students open to everything the world had to offer in the late 1960s. They prided themselves on their knowledge of...
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HAPPY HALLOWE'EN
C'est moi, c'est moi over 43 years ago...My real live hair and my undead stare...
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1965 POSTER ART JUVENILIA
Juvenilia from my past, parts of a tempera poster I did at school on the subject of what would benefit selfsame school. My thought: having fun to contemporary music. Two sections and the entirety of...
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RETRO MAKEOVER
Above, "Richard Avedon treatment" of my photo of Kizzy Kirk, fearless lead singer of the band Feral Kizzy (LINK.) Thoroughly modern Kizzy with now flaccid microphone below, in the original shot from...
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SUNSET STRIP movie
What do you want in a movie? If it's verisimilitude, you must have subjective overview for the context, or else it's just another period piece as distant and impersonal as The Napoleonic Wars. If it's...
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TEACHER'S PETS
Guest photographer- photo (C) 2013 Kurt Ingham. Literally and figuratively, Teacher's Pets. Mr. Ingham's third grade class came as Scottish Deerhounds and Golden Retrievers for this last Halloween...
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BLUES PORTFOLIO, guest photog Virginia Parks Williamson
Above, guest photographer Virginia Parks Williamson: David "Honeyboy" Edwards, legendary bluesman who performed with his friend the immeasurably influential guitarist/singer/songwriter Robert Johnson...
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CIRCUS ANIMALS
100 mules trekked right past the doorstep of my friends Don and Marijke in Shadow Hills CA commemorating Los Angeles Aqueduct's 100th birthday on Nov. 10th, but look what I found near our digs today!...
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CHRISTOPHER MILK quasi-REUNION, 40 years later
Once upon a time in 1971...Photo by James Oswald, Christopher Milk circa 1971 in Topanga Canyon, Calif. Left to right, Tres Feltman, John Mendelsohn, unknown rider and equine, Mr. Twister, Kirk Henry,...
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MAMA LION LYNN CAREY singer, actress, Pantherinaephile UPDATE
This month I photographed singer/actress LYNN CAREY, she of the big-voiced rock, blues, jazz, big band, full-throttled vocal stylings. Daughter of the late actor MacDonald Carey, Lynn initally...
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DEATH OF A TREE 2.0
Sad day for our 100-year-old farmhouse in the middle of an otherwise densely packed metropolis: death of our 100-year-old walnut tree, which had threatened to take out others with it in its terminal...
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Rest in peace WANDA COLEMAN
Above, my portrait of Wanda Coleman and Lydia Lunch,for Freeway Records' 1985 release "Twin Sisters" It's called a showstopper, when a performance becomes so thrillingly insightful that instead of...
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THE DOGS and a PAGAN record anew
THE DOGS recently backed former Pagan Mike Hudson on punkrock "I Want A Date"at Pawnshop Studios, Van Nuys CA for the latter's forthcoming solo release "Hollywood High." Above, L-R: Mike Hidson and...
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Rest in peace NELSON MANDELA
I offer this travelogue --click LINK-- as my meager tribute to the passing of a great humanitarian/activist. At least the spiritualism of Africa was addressed. Imagine accomplishing so difficult a...
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THE PIXIES' PICK
Bassist Paz Lenchantin of The Entrance Band, pictured above in 2010 at the Jam for Ron Asheton, Hollywood CA, replaces Kim Shattuck (The Pandoras, The Muffs) for the remainder of The Pixies touring...
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