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.

Polaroids-T55 in Paris

Clothes lines and sodium sulfate..the beat goes on ...Les Poleroids son buckets of fun.!

L.A. Skies Paris Show

L.A. Skies

I'm really excited about my upcoming show in Paris. I printed the entire show on Innova Fiber paper which feels like it was made for these specific images. I think the quality of the prints is stunning. Holding detail for color and depth in darker imagery has been so important. The prints are being framed now in France, at the Dupont Lab in Paris.

It will be very interesting for me to see how a European audience responds to these very classic noir images of Hollywood and Los Angeles. The photograph of the Asbury is the first picture I've produced using the newer Fuji 4x5 instant film.

Julius Shulman

Architectural Photographer Julius Shulman

"He, in my opinion and the opinions of many, is the most important architectural photographer in history. He elevated what you might consider a commercial genre to a fine art,"

Gallery owner and long time friend, Craig Krull

I photographed Julius in November of 2008. The camera he is holding is the one he began shooting with in 1936.

His photographs are examples of what the very best can be. Any serious photography involving architecture must be looked at in relationship to the work of Julius Shulman. His way of photographing will never again be duplicated.

A Master of a series of technically demanding skills he was able to capture with a large format camera in a single shot on a sheet of film the perfect picture- meticulously lit and balanced. But above all else it was his vision as an artist that defined an era.

With his passing one senses a great continent has slipped back into the sea.

Julius Shulman 1910-2009

photo: David Sirh

"We went out to breakfast after the photographs were taken...at age 98 Julius spoke excitedly about the shoot he had just completed the day before... the assignments he had coming up...and all the while he was finishing off a very large stack of pancakes... Some days remain forever!"

From 'A Photographer's Life: Just One More'

Polaroid Photograph of Julius Shulman 11"x 14" - ink on Innova archival paper

First published in Art and Living Magazine, Special Artists Issue - 2008

© 2008 Jim McHugh www.McHughArtistsArchives.com