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Photographers on Photography
$17.99By Henry Carroll Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Photographers on Photography reveals what matters most to the masters.With enlightening text by Henry Carroll, author of the internationally bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, you'll discover how the giants of the genres developed their distinctive visual styles, the core ideas that underpin their practice and, most importantly, what photography means to you. Laurence... -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view June 4 – Aug 20
The Social Scene
Highlighting MOCA’s photography collection, this exhibition traced themes of post-war social documentary photography made between the 1930s and 1980s through comprehensive bodies of work by Diane Arbus, Brassai, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Roger Mertin, John Pfahl, and Garry Winogrand. -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view July 1 – Feb 20
Making Space: Recent Photography Acquisitions
This exhibition highlights a selection of photographs that have recently joined MOCA’s renowned collection, including major gifts and both contemporary and historical purchases. -
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The Social Scene: Ralph R. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection
$39.95Essays by curator Cornelia H. Butler, Max Kozloff, A.D. Coleman, Liz Kotz, and Emily Aer. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Social Scene: The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection, MOCA, Los Angeles June 4, 2000- August 20, 2000. A photograph can serve as as both witness and catalyst, art object and call to action. In this catalog of a pivotal exhibition of works from the Ralph R. Parsons Photography Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photogr... -
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Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe
$39.95By Marvin Heiferman and Scott Kelly Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography’s role in visualizing science and building human knowledge―from micro to macro levels and everything in between.Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scie... -
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Ecstatic Truth: The Photography of Florian Maier-Aichen (MOCA Focus Series)
$35.00By Rebecca Morse This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Ecstatic Truth: The Photography of Florian Maier-Aichen, on view at MOCA June – September 2007. Florian Maier-Aichen’s photographic work portrays natural, industrial, and cultural landscapes with stylized eccentricity. Employing tropes of documentary photography in unconventional ways, Maier-Aichen creates sublime images rich with reference and allusion. While his richly hued photographs of the California coast, the Alps, and other lo... -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view Dec 3 – Mar 24
Sigmar Polke Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish
This comprehensive retrospective of the artist's photography-based works examined the critical role that photography plays in his larger oeuvre; approximately 120 pieces from the mid-'60s to the present, including the key series Paris, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Goya "Die Alten" and new, just-completed series. Accompanied by a catalogue; traveled to Site Santa Fe and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view Sept 20 – Feb 15
The Social Landscape: Selections from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection
The Social Landscape: Selections from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection presents works by Diane Arbus, Danny Lyon, and Garry Winogrand. A 1995 acquisition by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the collection includes over 2,000 works assembled by Robert Freidus, a leading New York dealer and collector. Included in the forty-one black-and-white photographs on display is a selection of prints from Winogrand's series Women are Beautiful (c. 1975), shot… -
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Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography
$45.00By Susan Bright From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Food’s complexity of form and meaning―and the fact that it’s often at hand―have made it a much-photographed subject throughout the history of photography. Interest in both food photography and food as a subject has risen in recent years, and this is the first book to cove... -
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Leroy Grannis: Surf Photography of the 1960s and 70s
$40.00By Steve Barilotti. Edited by Jim Heimann. A fresh re-edition of LeRoy Grannis’s sold-out Collector’s Edition, this collection gathers his most vibrant surf photography—from the perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu’s famed North Shore. One of the key image-makers in surfing history, Grannis also covers the emerging surf lifestyle, from “surfer stomps” and hordes of fans at surf contests to board-laden woody station wagons along the Pacific Coast Highway. Taschen, 2018 Hard... -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view Oct 10 – Jan 9
Not Painting: Some Views from the Permanent Collection
In unusual groupings that reveal the changing role of photography, more than 40 works are featured, ranging from photographic pieces by James Alinder, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Naomi Savage, Garry Winogrand and Max Yavno to a diverse variety of contemporary photography by Cindy Bernard, Barbara Ess, Judy Fiskin, Gunther Forg, Larry Johnson, Jack Pierson, Laurie Simmons, Mitchell Syrop and James Welling, among others. -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view Feb 11 – May 26
Social Documents: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Highlighting MOCA’s photography collection, this exhibition traced themes of post-war social documentary photography made between the 1930s and 1980s through comprehensive bodies of work by Diane Arbus, Brassai, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Roger Mertin, John Pfahl, and Garry Winogrand. -
ProgramProgramThursday, Jan 27, 2022 12am
Curator-led Walkthrough of Making Space: Recent Photography Acquisitions
MOCA members at the Contributing level and above are invited to a light breakfast of coffee and pastries followed by a walkthrough of Making Space: Recent Photography Acquisitions led by MOCA Assistant Curator Rebecca Lowery. -
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Will the Metric System Change Photography?
- Kay Shuper
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ProgramProgramSunday, Sep 24, 2023 4pm
MOCA Store Presents George Baker’s Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography
Conversation and Book SigningJoin the MOCA Store for an exciting evening celebrating George Baker's latest book, Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography (University of Chicago Press, 2023). The evening will feature a lively conversation with Baker and artists Sharon Lockhart and Tacita Dean. Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former medium constraints. Simultaneous with this development in… -
ProgramProgramThursday, Feb 25, 2016 7pm
Artists on Artists: Walead Beshty
Los Angeles–based artist and writer Walead Beshty assumes a conceptual approach to photography, employing the languages of documentary photography, portraiture, landscape, and abstract imagery. Beshty, whose work is currently on view in The Art of Our Time at MOCA Grand Avenue, will speak about Michael Asher as part of Artists on Artists, a new series that builds upon MOCA’s tradition of examining artworks and exhibitions through the voice of the artist.Priority tickets are available to MOCA mem… -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view Oct 8 – Jan 14
2000 BC: THE BRUCE CONNER STORY PART II
The first major survey of Bruce Conner’s career (1954 to the present), the exhibition included approximately 150 works in different media, including film, painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, printmaking, and photography. -
ProgramProgramThursday, Jun 7, 2018 6pm
Aperture Presents: A Book Launch and Signing with Charlotte Cotton
Join Aperture and MOCA Store for an evening with curator and author Charlotte Cotton to celebrate the launch of her new book Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self. -
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Identity Transfer 1-3
- VALIE EXPORT
In Identity Transfer 1–3, VALIE EXPORT mugs for the camera in a wig, zippered jacket, and gold jewelry, subtly modulating her poses, facial expressions, and clothing. The triptych explores how photography aids the transformation of complex identities into static images. Here, for example, it documents how makeup, jewelry, hair, clothes, posture, and other culturally defined gender codes, or signs, denote feminine identity. For VALIE EXPORT, this was an aesthetic matter as well as a feminist one, since visual media like photography, television, cinema, painting, and sculpture have playe…