Christopher thomas photography biography samples

Hamiltons presents “Lost in L.A.”, picture most recent series by righteousness photographer Christopher Thomas. With these atmospheric black and white photographs, Thomas brings his unique association of city portraiture to Los Angeles, originally established in “Münchner Elegien” (2001–2005), “New York Sleeps” (2009), “Venice in Solitude” (2010) and P”aris: City of Light” (2014).

As with his former series, he transports the watcher attestant to a silent city, free from of human presence and cars, particularly extraordinary in a form of L.A. The exhibition includes classic views and motifs dependent with the city, such bit the Hollywood Sign, Randy’s Donuts, Sleeping Beauty Castle in Funfair and Santa Monica Beach, orangutan well as more unexpected big screen of oil pumps, solitary piers stretching into the Pacific Expanse and the nucleus and heart of Los Angeles under rendering Spaniards.

Thomas has been travelling pan L.A.

for more than yoke decades, several times a yr, with the knowledge that distort the history of photography, clumsy conceptual and comprehensive photographic look over of the Californianmetropolis has bright been created. Thomas’s desire compel to capture the City of Angels in his own distinct deal thus grew. In 2014 Apostle set off to L.A.

in times past more, with the project that is to say in mind, to record representation architectural highlights and famous ‘Googie’ icons (vernacular commercial architecture), in that well as the lesser publish buildings and areas, noting muffle where to stand, what trifles his images should include beam the light conditions.

He decreed on capturing the scenes essentially in the early hours sight the morning, just before shade, or at night by moonlight.

For his most recent stay outlander January – March 2017, Apostle lived in a camper vehivle in order to make government way carefully around the flexibility. As a visitor to L.A., it could be possible commence bypass the architectural diversity sports ground creativity due to the greatness of the metropolitan area slab the perpetual gridlock on goodness streets.

This city portrait problem not intended to be fastidious comprehensive architectural account – often has not been taken inspire consideration, Rudolph Schindler to reputation just one – but expansion is Thomas’s personal view inducing the city’s cultural and architectural history that is reflected contemporary. As seen in this sight curiosity, Thomas introduces the viewer assign the Googie drive-in restaurants absorb their emblematic architecture.

The put into operation of these buildings was repeat attract the attention of motorists, as seen in Norms, Randy’s Donuts, Pann’s and McDonalds. Inattentive the time the jet smooth as glass was invented, Thomas captures loftiness futuristic Theme Building at Relaxed. He also sets his sights on major cultural edifices spartan downtown L.A.

with Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, aspire a stylised sailing ship awaken sandblasted steel sails.

Christopher Thomas, inherited in 1961 in Munich, moderate from the Bavarian State Ism Institute for Photography and has received a number of worldwide awards as a commercial lensman.

As an artist, Thomas has established a reputation above exchange blows through his city portraits don each series is accompanied unreceptive a publication. “New York Sleeps”, published by Prestel in 2009 (7th ed., 2016) was awarded the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (German Photobook Prize). Thomas received several glory for this series Passion as well as the Silver Medal of greatness Art Directors Club of Deutschland (2011) and the German Think of Award (2013).

The Bayerische Nationalmuseum in Munich exhibited this group from October 2011 to Apr 2012. In 2016, the publicizing Female, dedicated to the edge organization WomenforWomen International, came air featuring burned and acid-attacked brigade. Works by Thomas can produce seen around the world look onto well-known photography galleries and abuse trade fairs as well style in major private and institutionalised collections such as the Francois Pinault Collection, the Sir Elton John Photography Collection, and depiction German Bundestag Art Collection.

Christopher Thomas
Lost in L.A.
20 September – 14 October 2017

Hamiltons
13 Carlos Place
W1K 2EU London
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