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Douglas Hill united states
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Right Angles: Building on John Parkinson
This series is a visual examination of my relationship to the work of a single Los Angeles architect. The project is not meant so much to be an historical overview of the architect's life or work or a catalogue of the many structures he created in Los Angeles, but rather it is an experiential response to his buildings, a few of which hold the status of icon, as they occupy the city skyline and can be viewed today from its streets. Just as important to me will be these buildings' relationship to nearby structures, evidence of how the city has grown up around what remains of Parkinson's prodigious output. Of the more than 500 buildings that were built from his designs over 50 still stand, including LA City Hall, Bullock's Wilshire Department Store, Los Angeles Coliseum, and LA Union Station, the world's last great train station.
Hill began making photographs in 1969. From 1971 to 1973 he attended UCLA where he studied with Robert Heinecken, Darryl Curran, Jerry McMillan and Leland Rice. In 1973 he went to Cal Arts where Ben Lifson was teaching.
Hill's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at such places as: G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica; The International Center for Photography, New York; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Friends of Photography, Carmel; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich; Prairie State College, Chicago; The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; The Huntington, San Marino and publications: This Side of Paradise: Body & Landscape in Los Angeles Photography; Looking at Los Angeles; American Photo; Camera; 24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles; The New Color.
He is included in the collections of the Huntington, the Library of Congress, Joseph E Seagram & Son, Center for Creative Photography, Center for Motion Picture Studies, Amon Carter Museum and participated in The Los Angeles Documentary Project commemorating the bicentennial of Los Angeles, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Hill's commercial architectural photography has been widely published in House Beautiful, Coastal Living, Architecture, Architectural Record, Domus, World Architecture, Interior Design, Interiors. His work has also appeared in numerous books on architecture and interior design. He has been teaching photography at UCLA Extension since 1994.
He lives with Elayne Sawaya, his wife of 41 years and their poodle, Godfrey, in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.
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entry description
Right Angles: Building on John Parkinson (1861-1935)This series is a visual examination of my relationship to the work of a single Los Angeles architect. The project is not meant so much to be an historical overview of the architect's life or work or a catalogue of the many structures he created in Los Angeles, but rather it is an experiential response to his buildings, a few of which hold the status of icon, as they occupy the city skyline and can be viewed today from its streets. Just as important to me will be these buildings' relationship to nearby structures, evidence of how the city has grown up around what remains of Parkinson's prodigious output. Of the more than 500 buildings that were built from his designs over 50 still stand, including LA City Hall, Bullock's Wilshire Department Store, Los Angeles Coliseum, and LA Union Station, the world's last great train station.
about the photographer
Douglas Hill was born to Canadian parents in London, England in 1950. At the age of five he moved to New York where he lived until coming to Los Angeles in 1968 where he still resides. He attained U.S. citizenship in 1990.Hill began making photographs in 1969. From 1971 to 1973 he attended UCLA where he studied with Robert Heinecken, Darryl Curran, Jerry McMillan and Leland Rice. In 1973 he went to Cal Arts where Ben Lifson was teaching.
Hill's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at such places as: G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica; The International Center for Photography, New York; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Friends of Photography, Carmel; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich; Prairie State College, Chicago; The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; The Huntington, San Marino and publications: This Side of Paradise: Body & Landscape in Los Angeles Photography; Looking at Los Angeles; American Photo; Camera; 24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles; The New Color.
He is included in the collections of the Huntington, the Library of Congress, Joseph E Seagram & Son, Center for Creative Photography, Center for Motion Picture Studies, Amon Carter Museum and participated in The Los Angeles Documentary Project commemorating the bicentennial of Los Angeles, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Hill's commercial architectural photography has been widely published in House Beautiful, Coastal Living, Architecture, Architectural Record, Domus, World Architecture, Interior Design, Interiors. His work has also appeared in numerous books on architecture and interior design. He has been teaching photography at UCLA Extension since 1994.
He lives with Elayne Sawaya, his wife of 41 years and their poodle, Godfrey, in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.
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