I am pleased to announce that the Classic Photographs Los Angeles show at Michael Dawson Gallery was well attended and enjoyed by hundreds of people who attended. Dealers, curators, and collectors expressed their enthusiasm for the quality of photographs on display and the relaxed, informal nature of the one day event.
Sunday, January 17th, 2010, 11am to 5 pm
Michael Dawson Gallery is pleased to host a one day event featuring fine 19th and 20th century photographs from ten dealers across the country, who are known to specialize in this field. You can expect to find photographs from Eugene Atget to Edward Weston and everything in between. There will be photographs for beginning collectors as well as for those who have been building their collection for many years. We look forward to seeing you at our first collective exhibition in Los Angeles.
This exhibition will feature selections from the inventories of
Ansel AdamsPhotographer Kim Stringfellow presented an informal lecture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in December 2009 in conjunction with the New Topographics exhibition. Kim discussed how the influence of the New Topographics movement of the 1970s has informed her current photographic practice. Michael Dawson Gallery is pleased to host a book signing and exhibition with Kim Stringfellow on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 to celebrate her new book, Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938-2008 published by the Center for American Places. For more information about the book and to view Stringfellow’s photographs go to www.kimstringfellow.com.
The book launch party for Kaucyila Brooke’s new publication, Vitrinen in Arbeit at the Schindler house in West Hollywood was a great success. Over 4o people gathered in the courtyard to hear Kaucyila and Virginia Heckert in conversation about the new book and other issues surrounding the photography of public cultural institutions. I enjoyed sitting under the stars listening to a very intelligent conversation.
Kaucyila Brooke and Getty curator Virgina Heckert at Schindler House, November 11, 2009
A big thank you to all the dealers and buyers who showed up for the table top show at Dawson’s. We had a full house throughout the day. The show was even mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. We will keep you posted about upcoming shows.
Kaucyila Brooke, Untitled #32, from Vitrinen in Arbeit
I am very pleased to announce a publication party for Kaucyila Brooke’s new book featuring her work from the Vitrinen in Arbeit series. This body of work is a visual investigation of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Brooke and Getty curator Virginia Heckert will consider the Natural History Museum in relation to projects by artists who have addressed the subject of museum display as well as Brooke’s prior artworks. This event will take place at the MAK Center on November 1th, 2009 at 7 pm. I look forward to seeing there.
MAK Center for Art and Architecture
at the Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Open: Wednesday through Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm
323 651 1510 phone
323 651 2340 fax
Visit: www.MAKcenter.org
Contact: office@makcenter.org
On September 18th, I was pleased to attend an award ceremony at Azusa Pacific University where my uncle, Glen Dawson, received an honorary doctorate in the humanities. Organized by our good friend Thomas Andrews, the event was attended by over 40 family members and friends. I worked with Glen for many years at Dawson’s Bookshop and have gained valuable knowledge from his depth and experience in the fields of Western Americana and Californiana.
The photo shows Glen and me along with his sister Fern Shochat.
(Steve Fitch: vintage print from the series Diesels and Dinosaurs, 1973)
You won’t want to miss a unique sales event!
Remember the tabletop shows of the 1970s and 80s when collecting was still fun and more importantly, affordable? Join local dealers and private collectors Sunday October 25th from 9am to 4pm for a revival of the one-day tabletop fair. Conveniently located between Beverly Blvd. and Melrose, Dawson’s Book Shop/Michael Dawson Gallery is just north of the famous Larchmont Village shopping area. There is plenty of free street parking on Sunday and local restaurants nearby.
Highlights of the show include works by Carleton Watkins, including a mammoth plate of “The Dalles, Columbia River, 1867” as well as stereo cards, and images of Yosemite, a number of fine daguerreotypes, nineteenth and twentieth century photographs and ephemera of Southern California, views of the California Missions by A.C. Vroman, a selection of anonymous politically charged press photos from the 1960s, and work from the Los Angeles Police Department Archive. Presumably the earliest work for sale will be William Henry Fox Talbot’s “The Pantheon, Paris” 1843 from a private collection. Robin Blackman of fototeka (well known for the exhibition and book “Scene of the Crime: Photographs from the LAPD Archive”) will feature “Mexotica” a new series of 1950s pinup photographs produced from a vintage set of color transparencies discovered in a small antiques store in Mexico City. These butter-smooth nudes were exotic dancers and aspiring models every bit as alluring as their northern pinup counterpart, Betty Page.
Vendors include: Robin Blackman/fototeka, Book Club of California, Joe Bray, California Curio Company, Michael Dawson, Amanda Doenitz, James Farber, Joseph Gatto, Bert Green, Jane Handel, Paul Hertzmann, Jim Hsieh, Bill McClatchy/El Dorado Books, Bobby McDermon, Phil Nathanson, John Nichols, Lee Silva, The Studio for Southern California History, Andrew Ward Fine Art Photographs, Inc. and more.
For more information, get in touch with me or my partner in crime, Amanda Doenitz, 310.205.0326 or email amandadoenitz@yahoo.com.
(Sanford Roth: Francoise Sagan, Klosters, Switzerland, circa 1950)
I am very excited to announce the arrival of my new website. Check it out and let me know what you think – dawsonbooks.com
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