Los Angeles Street Portraits
TONY FOUHSE: New Photographs
ANGELENOS / Portraits from L.A.
September 7 – 20, 2012
Vernissage Friday 7 / 7 – 10pm
Tunes by an Electronic DeviceBeyond the cliché, Los Angeles is a tough town to photograph. The landmarks and the myths are top of mind but the reality is something else.Photographer Tony Fouhse spent 8 days in Los Angeles looking behind the scenes, shooting 4×5 portraits of Angelenos, plain and simple.
He went to the usual spots: Hollywood, The Sunset Strip, Venice Beach. And he went places he was told he couldn’t: South Central, East L.A.These 10 portraits show some of the people he met and photographed: Russian emigrés, gang bangers, runaways. . .
The face of Los Angeles you don’t see on Entertainment Tonight.
Vernissage Friday 7 / 7 – 10pm
Tunes by an Electronic DeviceBeyond the cliché, Los Angeles is a tough town to photograph. The landmarks and the myths are top of mind but the reality is something else.Photographer Tony Fouhse spent 8 days in Los Angeles looking behind the scenes, shooting 4×5 portraits of Angelenos, plain and simple.
He went to the usual spots: Hollywood, The Sunset Strip, Venice Beach. And he went places he was told he couldn’t: South Central, East L.A.These 10 portraits show some of the people he met and photographed: Russian emigrés, gang bangers, runaways. . .
The face of Los Angeles you don’t see on Entertainment Tonight.