Book details:
Poetry
Paperback • 56 pages
ISBN 978-0-9859773-5-1
Publication Date: 01/15/2010
About the Author:
Born in Ohio, Kevin McCollister worked as a deckhand on the MIssissippi River for several years after which he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended Harvard University Extension School. He has now lived in Los Angeles longer than he has lived in any other city. READ MORE…
East of West LA
"I'm Photographing LA—All of it" is Kevin McCollister's self-proclaimed lifetime project. Determined to walk the city, perhaps one of the most determinedly unwalkable cities in the world, seeing to make a record of its mostly unseen face with an unstaged straightforwardness that disarms the popular mythologies of the place, McCollister finds a new city, the city that is Los Angeles, all of it, one image at a time. "Long after the bars have emptied, the taco trucks have shut down, and the citizenry are safe in their beds, Kevin McCollister prowls the streets of LA, brooding, silent, relentless, with his Canon 40 at his side, waiting for the cityscape to whisper, 'Take my picture'"—Lewis MacAdams.
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Praises, Reviews & Interviews:
“His version is not the cliché L.A. story, feathered with fortune and celebrity. His photos are counterintuitive as to what many people think of when they think of Los Angeles: a news vendor, the 4th Street bridge, the Los Angeles River or a homeless woman wearing a Burberry scarf.”
“While he is certainty documenting LA, his images evoke something chambered and contemplative, startling in their quietude.”