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Everybody I Ever Met in L.A.
Photographs by Jonathan Hollingsworth.
Just One Guy Press,
Santa Fe,
2008.
64 pp.,
45 color illustrations.,
7x9".
Signed copies available!
Publisher's Description
In his most recent body of work, Hollingsworth sends up his
former home of Los Angeles, the vortex of American pop culture,
playing the characters who populate and define it–personas
ranging from the well-worn stereotypes to the forgotten
and disenfranchised. Shot entirely on Polaroid film, the images
have a mug-shot aesthetic, whereby each character seems to
have been momentarily plucked from his immediate environment
for scrutiny under the artist’s no-holds-barred gaze.
“When I moved to Los Angeles, I had just graduated from a
pricey university, the economy was tanking out, jobs were
sparse, and I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life . . .
but a couple of good, mercilessly driven friends had moved
there, and I knew the sun shone 300+ days of the year so I
packedmy car and drove cross-country. The day I arrived, I had
this sinking feeling that I had made a terrible mistake, that I
didn’t fit in. I was right, but the love/hate relationship lasted for
five years. I didn’t begin working on the series until well-after
I’d left. Inspired by the people I actually knew, wanted to know
or forget–or just the guy sitting next to me in hisHonda on the
405 in the gridlock of Friday afternoon traffic–these pictures
are a wicked, loving valentine to a city, which if female, would
be the sort of wildcat you might entertain for a while, but
would never take home to mom.”
Jonathan Hollingsworth
About the Limited Edition
Signed and numbered edition of 20
laid in a clamshell box, each with
a choice of two original Polaroids,
with hand-written caption.
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