At The BeachIn 1975 Tod Papageorge made a cross America trip that ended on the beaches of Los Angeles. There, taken by the blinding light, he produced some of his first medium format (6 x 9 cm) photographs. In 1978 he returned to Los Angeles to expand on those first pictures and, in 1981 and 1988, on shorter visits, added yet again to this body of work. Here, he writes about At the Beach: I think that part of what these beach pictures are about is the difference

sun-faded neighborhoods

to the present day

and whose work is now included in the most prestigious international collections

buildings and natural scenes are imbued with Hawkesworth's generous and dignifying eye

Their process of working slowly and collaboratively discloses moments of heightened psychological intensity in images that transcend the specifics of a particular person or place

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Nydia uses photography

a city that

1980 I was 14 years old and i somehow got hold of my first camera

Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens and dozens of other poets

others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form

Paradiso) but I always kept photographing (mostly in black and white) everything that mattered to me in a constant flux without a specific direction