L.A. Vedute / Thomas Locke Hobbs ; conversation, David Campany ; text editing, Cynthia Hagstrom.

Title & Author:

L.A. Vedute / Thomas Locke Hobbs ; conversation, David Campany ; text editing, Cynthia Hagstrom.

Edition:

Edition: 700

Publication:

[Breda?] : The Eriskay Connection, [2022]
©2022

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes a conversation between David Campany and the artist.
Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook of the Year Shortlist, 2023.

Summary:

The lines that divide us are the spaces we share. Driveways, paths, entrances and walls. These are the boundaries that separate our homes, but also the in between areas we use and cross over. L.A. Vedute by Thomas Locke Hobbs (US) is a documentary study of domestic architecture in the city of Los Angeles. The project started after a walk around East Hollywood. Standing on the property line of two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, the space in between reminded Hobbs of a painting: The Ideal City of Urbino, by an unknown Renaissance artist and famous for the optical linear perspective that shows the city in its greatness, with the total absence of people. The illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point. Using a large format camera and rigorously consistent framing, Hobbs depicts the negative space between neighbouring buildings. The work presents the way shared spaces recede to a common vanishing point, largely unpopulated and deserted, like movie sets where actors have disappeared. L.A. Vedute exposes the veins of a city, in conflict and coexistence, with a poetic obliviousness: metaphors of alienation.

ISBN:

9492051869 (paperback)
9789492051868 (paperback)

Subject:

Locke Hobbs, Thomas.
Locke Hobbs, Thomas Interviews.
Architectural photography California Los Angeles.
Architecture, Domestic California Los Angeles Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie d'architecture Californie Los Angeles.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Architecture, Domestic
Architectural photography
Buildings
Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
California Los Angeles

Form/genre:

Interviews
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Locke Hobbs, Thomas, interviewee.
Campany, David, interviewer.
Hagstrom, Cynthia, editor.

Los Angeles Vedute
Vedute Los Angeles

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319831
Call No.: 319831
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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