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

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 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

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