I've been photographing flowers recently, using my 8x10 Deardorff camera - 

FALL FORWARD - AN EXPRESSION OF LANGUAGE AND LIGHT: The Newest Exhibition from YARGER PROJECTS -

"Included in this group show is the newest exhibition of photographs by Jim McHugh featuring his very unique view of Los Angeles as well as an entire wall of David Hockney pictures that McHugh has made of the great artist over the last 40 years.   

A special highlight of this Yarger Projects presentation is a spectacular multi-media print " Bail Bonds. " For this work McHugh  collaborated with a Getty collected LA graffiti artist Jose Reza aka "PRIME" - together they've fashioned an unforgettable street level portrait of the city. Definitely a show to see. "   The Sunday Times - Weekender

David Hockney regarding Van Gogh's portrait of his mother at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA. 2002 -- David sketching in his garden - London, 2006 - "Motel on 8th Street" 50" x 40" - "Bail Bonds, Hollywood Division" 40" x 30" in collaboration with artist Jose Reza aka "PRIME"  All photographs © Jim McHugh

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Andy Ruiz Heavy Weight Champion of the World - Training at Wildcard Boxing in 2009 - 18 years old

ANDERSONVILLE - Photographing the Civil War in Georgia

 

From John Frankenheimer's Civil War docudrama "ANDERSONVILLE." A platoon of Georgia Civil War re-enactors

 I was reminded of a great photographic adventure in Georgia; photographing John Frankenheimer's Emmy winning, Civil War epic Andersonville; The story of the Union Army's notorious prison camp for Confederate soldiers. A challenging, period stylish project for my friend, legendary director John Frankenheimer; and commissioned by a creatively open  minded Barbara Griffin, Director of Photography for TNT. 

Everything was shot with Polaroid T55 pos/neg film to produce a Civil War era style photograph.  The only possible camera had to be hand held because of all the action with horses and soldiers; that was when I became familiar with the Speed Grafix press camera, a 4x5" camera from the 1940s with range-finder focus. The Polaroid T55 was a pos/neg film developed by Ansel Adams and Dr. Land in the 1940s. This amazing film is no longer manufactured, causing much sadness to a distinct group of photographers. The negatives had to be pealed away and processed in a bucket immediately, on the spot. Producer Connie Conway kept our little photo train on track.  

Director John Frankenheimer - T55 Polaroid, silver gelatin print

The pictures looked so authentically period. Subsequently two large public exhibitions of the photographs were presented, one at the Director's Guild in Hollywood and another at TNT in Atlanta. 

A Union company engaging - T55 Polaroid, silver gelatin print

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The Fontenoy

The glamorous Fortenoy Apts. beneath Whitley Heights overlooking Hollywood Blvd. mid-1920s

Angelino Heights, one of LA's earliest upper middle-class neighborhoods dating from the late 1800s

Mid-Wilshire, K-Town and below is the final resting place for much of what remains of pre-WWII Los Angeles. Whole neighborhoods of the central city were abandoned after the war.  Families bought new cars and headed the the Westside, purchasing acres of GI Bill funded Case Study style, smaller, modern nuclear family homes. Clean and lean; post war living was designed for mother, father and two children; no extra nooks and crannies for aunts, grandmothers and spinster sisters. The general population, modern home was designed to satisfy a massive housing shortage by building multiple units quickly at a reasonable price with the newest, labor saving construction materials like economical plywood, dry wall and plate glass.

 Now traffic and prices are pulling everyone back to an earlier 1930s population footprint.  This creates it's own push back challenges in Boyle Heights, Pico Union and other neighborhoods discarded years ago to immigrants and the help. On the grand urban history timeline the LA's contribution began a very short while ago. Unlike New York, or an ancient city such as Rome, we can almost reach back and touch LA's beginnings, a few four of five generations ago.

 

Pacific Theater - Hollywood Blvd. from a T55 Polaroid negative ©1998 Jim McHugh

The Pacific Theater, where the first "Talkie" debuted in Hollywood, was originally a Warner's theater. Looking closely one can see the old Warner's letters still remain on the inside of the tower. Economics perhaps, cheaper to add letters to the backside of the previous sign than

fabricating a new one. 

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