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Old Posted Jan 16, 2012, 11:20 PM
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I read about these in the L.A. Times Calendar section yesterday, both look good.

NAKED HOLLYWOOD; WEEGEE IN LOS ANGELES
MOCA
11.13.11 - 02.27.12

In 1947, the tabloid photographer known as Weegee relocated from New York City to Los Angeles. In moving west, he abandoned the grisly crime scenes for which he was best known and trained his camera instead on Hollywood stars, strippers, costume shops, and naked mannequins, sometimes distorted through trick lenses and multiple exposures. “Now I could really photograph the subjects I liked,” said Weegee of his life in Los Angeles. “I was free.”

Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles is the first museum exhibition devoted to the work Weegee produced in Southern California.

In addition to roughly 200 photographs, many of which have never before been shown or reproduced, the exhibition encompasses Weegee's related work as an author, filmmaker, photo-essayist, and genius self-promoter. Following the photographer's lead, the exhibition documents the lurid, irresistible undersides of stardom, fandom, commerce, and publicity in mid-century Los Angeles. Weegee's 1953 photo-book Naked Hollywood provides the title and point of departure for the exhibition.


http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?&id=450



BECOMING LOS ANGELES
L.A.NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
DECEMBER 2012

Becoming Los Angeles (that's a working title) will open just ahead of the museum's one hundredth birthday and travel through 500 years of LA history, "from European contact to its rise as a global capital," according to a press release. The 14,000 square foot exhibit will take up four galleries in both the 1913 and 1920s buildings.The press release says that the NHM has been collecting LA artifacts "for generations," and has pieces from old LA families like the Coronels, Temples, and del Valles.
A Mexican sword, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" rig, and more.

Here's a little about what Becoming Los Angeles will look like: "a visually striking canopy will symbolize the sweep of history and lead visitors through the exhibit's major sections or historical eras: the pre-Spanish landscape; Mission Era; Mexican Rancho Era; the early years of the American Period; the emergence of a new American city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and L.A. as a global city of the 21st century. This canopy will touch down at four points, triggering the walkthrough experience from once section to the next. Iconic objects at these trigger points include a cross from Mission San Gabriel and an inscribed sword from the Mexican war of independence. Other important objects in the exhibit include a wooden oil well pump from a 1920s Los Angeles city oil field, and Walt Disney's animation stand that was built in his uncle's L.A. garage in 1923. (Disney used it to film "Steamboat Willie," the first cartoon released that featured Mickey Mouse.)"

The exhibit is set to open in December. The museum turns 100 in 2013.


http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/0...story.php#more

(G_W, maybe one of these will coincide with one of your L.A.visits?)
Had a "Voila" moment in Weegee's exhibit- Several images in one room had ironic juxtaposition of Colonic signage on buildings with other topical signs that obviously amused him greatly- And in a case was an opened scrapbook of Weegee's material dealing with downtown -- Prominently opened to a full page of Colonic businesses in a 1940(?) yellowpages- The largest advert was for the Sultan Spa - address -607 So.Hill St.-just steps away from Pershing Square.. This became the rollicking Sultan Health Club (!) in the mid-50s- Colonics long abandoned and replaced by some 65 plywood cubicles to spend the nites in (2.50 a pop) Gloryholes present in most units- Later 2 vice officers spent lots of evenings therein recording beaucoup sexytimes-and conducting plenty of arrests. Weegee's unique clipping (no other such yelllowpages @ LAPL ) informs me that multiple showers and lavatories would have remained for usage in what became a bathouse for the scene - Stairway to this basement is still to be spotted immediately inside the doors of the #607 doorway-Thank you Weegee for clearing this detail up for my overactive mind.
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