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Helen K. Garber
Evite for "Helen K. Garber: L.A. Noir" at the Farmani Gallery (Los Angeles, Feb 5 - March 1, 2008)
2008, 5 February
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Farmani Gallery: Gallery of Contemporary Photography
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Venice based photographer Helen K. Garber will be presenting L.A. Noir at the Farmani Gallery from February 5 - March 1, 2008. The opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, February 9, from 6 - 9 pm. The Farmani Gallery is located at 844 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035. For more information please contact Paris Chong, gallery director, at paris@farmanigallery.com or 310 657 5756.
L.A. Noir combines Helen K. Garber's film noir inspired night urban landscapes of Los Angeles with text extracted from pulp fiction using the city as character and the sound of bebop jazz. A percentage of sales will be donated to the Los Angeles Conservancy. Without the Conservancy, I would have no historic landmarks to shoot, explains Ms. Garber.
L.A. Noir was nominated for the prestigious 2006 Santa Fe Prize in Photography and was recently featured as a solo show at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY and as a special exhibit at the Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA. Many of the images in the portfolio are included in a number of important museum and corporate collections including the George Eastman House, International Museum of Film & Photography, NY and the Brooklyn Museum, NY.
L.A. Noir has received much critical praise from the photographic, mystery literature, architectural and film noir communities:
Stephen Perloff, editor of the Photo Review, Photograph Collector and Focus Magazine - Seedy motels and shady characters, unrelieved tension and incipient fear are hallmarks of that genre we call Film Noir. But Helen K. Garber's Urban Noir stands that tradition on its head. Her views of the city at night expose a near-pristine paradise, full of energy and light, a place both magical and inviting.
Julian Cox, Curator of Photography, High Museum, Atlanta, GA, former photo curator at The Getty Center - This work demonstrates a fresh and distinct photographic vision, one that sparks new understandings and imaginings about the city of Los Angeles and its elusive mythologies. Image and text are woven together with considerable skill and flair, the one informing and complementing the other. Of course many artists have photographed Los Angeles over the years, but none with quite the wit and acuity of vision that is found in L.A. Noir.
Denise Hamilton, editor of Akashic Book's L.A. Noir mystery anthology and creator of the best selling Eve Diamond crime fiction series - Helen K. Garber is a visual poet whose photos perfectly encapsulate the elusive, eternal noir quality of Los Angeles.
Tim Anderson, Managing editor of Camera Arts Magazine - Helen K. Garber's haunting, enigmatic Urban Noir scenes have haunted as well as taunted me. Garber has taken street photography to new depths of the imagination. Rather than viewing stark, in-your-face images, you see visions of things that might be, dreamscapes or landscapes of the mind.
Farmani Gallery is the home of the International Photography Awards; the parent organization that presents the Lucies, the annual award event that celebrates the photography world in the same manner as the Oscars celebrates film. Helen K. Garber sits on the photographer's advisory board of the International Photography Awards organization.
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