LA ART SHOW 2011

ART LA 2011 - at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Timothy Yarger Fine Art. 

Full Moon at L.A. Live  from Los Angeles Convention Center shot with the new  Polaroid 300

New color prints from Land and Water and Let's Get Lost: Polaroids From The Coast debuted with Timothy Yarger Fine Art at the LA ART SHOW. 

Jim McHugh's exhibit at the Timothy Yarger Fine Art booth at LA ART SHOW 2011

 Timothy Yarger and his staff installing the new work at the Convention Center

I had a lot of fun shooting all my friends with the Polaroid 300, and they could actually take a picture home!

 Good friend and National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig back from Russia, where he continues to shoot his epic project.

  Polaroid's L.A. marketing crew from William Morris at the Opening Night Gala!  L.R.  Lauren Becker, Jeannine Hamaoui, Brad Klemmer, photographer Jim McHugh, Stasi Jorgensen, Alyer Breau,  gallery owner Timothy Yarger - • from a Polaroid 300

Photography's First Couple, Francoise & Douglas Kirkland with  filmmaker Chloe McHugh • Polaroid 300 

Artist Chul-Hyun Ahn with his mirror and glass installations at the Art Show, Yarger booth. His studio is in Baltimore, where all the fabrication is done.

Always up on the latest, Damon Webster of PhotoInduced.com visits

the McHugh installation at Timothy Yarger. With his trusty Nikon in hand! • Polaroid 300

www.photoinduced.com

 Artist Zhenya Gershman • Polaroid 300 © 2011 Jim McHugh

Friend and Photographer Michele Mattei showed a selection of her Women series.

Los Angeles Art Show - L.A. Convention Center

"Street Light, Downtown" ©2010 Jim McHugh

"Fire Road Above the Sunset Strip" © 2007 Jim McHugh

"Maroon Valley Diptych"  © 2010 Jim McHugh

With the exception of "Fire Road Above the Sunset Strip," the new pictures that will be shown at the LA ART SHOW have not been exhibited before. Quite by surprise, the selected images are all color. A mix of Colorado and Los Angeles. I ran across an interesting quote by Ansel Adams before while shooting in Colorado, " Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer, - and often the supreme disappointment. " I was very conscious of that while I was photographing in Colorado. What looks so perfect to your eye can be so flat and undirected in a picture. How do you build depth into a two dimentional photograph? How do you create a real sense of space and size? How do you approach a genre that has been so definitively and beautifully photographed by Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams and many others. Like the cityscapes of Los Angeles, I try to look at everything as a portrait, not to be recorded, but to be interpreted. My greatest inspiration as a photographer is often painters.  In this recent work the English artist John Constable is always in my mind, with his powerful presence of clouds and skies. 

Vernissage is Wednesday, January 19th at 7pm.

January 20-23, Daily 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Los Angeles Convention Center

West Hall A • Booth E-150

310 278 4400 info@yargerfineart.com 

Jim McHugh is represented by Timothy Yarger Fine Art

at the Los Angeles Art Show 2011

Polaroid Site features video of Jim McHugh at work on the streets of Hollywood.

Photographer Jim McHugh is profiled in video now featured on the new Polaroid website. Jim is part of Polaroid's group of photographers working in the medium of Polaroid film and materials.





Visit the new Polaroid site here www.polaroid.com

Rob Lowe and Jim Belushi Photographed for November's Architectural Digest

This is Rob's second AD cover. We shot the first one together in 2004

Rob and Sheryl at home in Santa Barbara with the Blue Pacific behind them. On the adjoining portico they confer with the celebrated interior designer, and good friend, David Phoenix.

Photographed with my 4x5 Speed Graphic and remaining T55 - Polaroid. 

I always enjoy working with Sheryl and Rob Lowe. They know exactly what it takes to make great photographs and will always set aside enough time to let that happen.
To Rob no detail is too small; he and Sheryl completely understand the 
importance of style, lighting
and all the other tiny details that go into making  pictures look so simple and easy! Of course,we also appreciated the little Italian cookies and imported prosciutto! 
Photographers are so easily won over!

My lens cap's off to Jennifer Dynof, who schedules and manages the vast Lowe Universe, she patiently put this all together. FYI photo travelers, Jennifer is the highly experienced former production manager for my friend and unforgettable photographer Herb Ritts. 
( File under an even smaller world)

We were most fortunate to have interior designer David Phoenix http://www.davidphoenix.com/david-phoenix/ lending his expert hand on the shoot day. David has skillfully decorated homes for everybody from the Kennedys to  Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver. David was recognized last year in the design world as "America's Leading Young Designer." So if David Phoenix says " I think the chair needs to go a little bit to left,"  well then... that's where we put it !!

 Jennifer  and Jim Belushi at home in Brentwood, Ca. with their 
incredibly wonderful German Shepherd, Cash! I have a shepherd too, 
named Scottie, so I'm just a little partial. 
Of course with shepherds you have to be
very open minded about some serious barking!

What exceptional couple, my crew and I enjoyed spending the afternoon with Jim and Jennifer. They were so considerate of both us and the job we had to do. Jim's schedule is always jam packed, finding a afternoon to shoot was challenging. His TV series films every day - and  music bookings often take him away on the weekends. We had plenty of time to set up our shots and they happily offered help and good suggestions. Jim was only concerned with "getting it right."  Working with this caliber of artist will always makes for successful pictures. And, of course, there was lunch! I must also thank Jim's extremely capable assistant Samandhi, a USC Film School graduate for her very appreciated schedule juggling that allowed all the planes
to land in the same place at the same time so our little photo shoot could actually happen!  

All Images © 2010 Jim McHugh   www,jimmchugh.com    

  The McHugh Studio - Los Angeles - 323 466 2890

All of these pictures were shot with my Nikon D3x, I like the native 
color of Nikon captures  and Nikon Lenes are truly spectacular. The raw files are processed through Adobe Lightroom. 

BTW -after much research, I'm using a  Kiboko Bag from Guru Gear 

http://www.guragear.com/product.php for my outdoor 4x5 work. I just returned from 

10 days in Colorado photographing the Fall! But more of that later...

Let's Get Lost / Newest Photo Exhibit by Jimmy McHugh III

Opening Night  "Let's Get Lost" -    The featured Exhibit for the annual  "BROOKLYN • DUMBO HOLIDAY ART WALK" at the Farmani Gallery  http://farmanigallery.com/en/current.php

Jimmy McHugh's grandson, photographer Jim McHugh (Architectural Digest) has a new book and photography Exhibition titled after the iconic standard "Let's Get Lost."  The photographs depict a moody, Chandleresque Los Angeles. The works are an homage to his grandfather and Hollywood as the vintage Cinema Capitol. The songwriter and lyricist Dorothy Fields traveled there after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Many Broadway Theaters  were closing and the daring McHugh and Fields set off to  Hollywood to try their hands at writing songs for the movies! 

  Photographer Jimmy McHugh III and friends at the                   "Lets Get Lost" Opening Night reception                click for more pictures  www.letsgetlost-la.com

Pictures from the exhibit are in the Permanent Collection of the George Eastman House.

Let's Get Lost Exhibition: Brooklyn Dec 3rd @ Farmani Gallery

Let's Get Lost Exhibition

Opening Thursday, December 3rd. 6p-8:30pm

Artist's Open Forum with Jim McHugh

Saturday December 5th, 1-6pm

Show December 3rd, 2009 through January 16th, 2010

Farmani Gallery

Yarger Fine Art - Jim McHugh - Art Miami 2009 Dec 1st-6th.

Jim will be appearing at Art Miami next week during The Basel Miami Art Week courtesy of Timothy Yarger Fine Art, @ Booth B-76.

Feinstein at Carnegie and JIm McHugh interviewed about his songwriter Grandfather-Marylin Beck and Stacy Janel Smith

It's been interesting applying so many photography marketing ideas to a music catalog. My grandfather and I were very close, it seems only right to do all we can to make his music live on.

Michael Feinstein, Wesla Whitfield and Noah Racey's NY Tap Ensemble at Carnegie Hall for a special evening saluting the music of Jimmy McHugh songwriter of "I'm in the Mood for Love"- "On the Sunny Side of the Street"- "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" and many others. Author Alyn Shipton, Jim McHugh and Michael Feinstein talk about Jimmy McHugh and Alyn's new biography "I Feel A Song Coming On, The Music of Jimmy McHugh" available in bookstores and on Amazon.com

The National Ledger article is in the middle of the page.

-David