Photography

Illuminating the power of change in the L.A. Basin

2013-05-19 07:00:00

For nearly a century starting in the 1880s, photographers went from sluice to street corner to suburban pool to record one utility's efforts to electrify Greater Los Angeles and beyond. The result of their labors: the 70,000-image Southern California...

The Lone Cypress: Connecting with the most photographed tree in North America

2013-05-19 08:00:00

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — You've seen the Lone Cypress. It stands along famously scenic 17-Mile Drive, raked by wind, swaddled in fog, clinging to its wave-lashed granite pedestal like God's own advertisement for rugged individualism. It may be 250...

Review: Camera-free photography with beauty and bite by Marco Breuer

2013-05-17 09:30:00

Marco Breuer practices photography in a sculptural, performative sense, redefining the medium as physical and primal through embossing, scratching and scraping, burning, scoring and sanding. Diane Rosenstein included the New York-based artist in the...

In Mexico, immigrants' relatives watch U.S. debate, and hope

2013-05-17 17:59:00

TONATICO, Mexico — Armando Guadarrama was navigating his taxi through the narrow streets of this central Mexico pueblo on a recent Saturday morning, some 2,000 miles from the Beltway. But like many here, Guadarrama was up-to-the-minute with the...

The Rolling Stones 32 years later — It’s only rock ‘n’ roll, but I like it

2013-05-16 16:04:11

A view into the photography program at Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology

2013-05-14 11:04:04

Gustavo Dudamel: Through the lens of a Times photographer

2013-05-14 10:48:00

Not many people who aren't musicians can say they’ve been within a few feet of Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director Gustavo Dudamel while he’s conducting a symphony. Over the last four years, Los Angeles Times staff photographer...

Alison Wright, photographer, chases faces, grace

2013-05-15 06:00:00

Alison Wright got her first camera at age 10, a Kodak Instamatic. Then she learned there was such a thing as a photojournalist, a person who traveled the world taking pictures. So that was that. She had a career – a career that would eventually...

The L.A. Phil’s Gustavo Dudamel in the camera’s eye

2013-05-14 10:54:46

So many ways to chill

2013-05-13 10:42:00

Who doesn't love a cucumber? Picklers, slicers, green or yellow, smooth or bumpy, thin- or thick-skinned, chubby Kirbys, little cornichons, English, Japanese, Persian. Good thing then that with the impending heat comes cucumber season. They peak with...

Los Angeles Herald Examiner photograph collection

2013-05-12 21:23:35

Herald Examiner photographers reflect on the good ol' days

2013-05-12 20:05:00

Nick Souza doesn't remember developing the film of what he considers his most noteworthy front-page photo. He doesn't even recall printing the image. What he does remember is "standing on a giant ladder in the middle of Broadway" to photograph co-...

Wimsey Cove Framing and Art presents an exhibition of the works of wildlife photographer RiKK Jacobs and digital graphic photographer D.L. Callaway through June 30 at 3141 Solomons Island Road in Edgewater. A reception will be held from 1 p.m to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Kay Westhues discusses "Well Stories," her current photography project at Holy Cross College during the annual Arts Day Salon.

2013-05-12 03:13:00

Crews from Universal Orlando attach a Transformer to the side of the the Fairwinds Building in downtown Orlando. (Red Huber/ Staff Photographer).

2013-05-01 00:00:00