ERNEST HOLZMAN | L.A. BACKSTORY
Opening reception: January 12, 2013 | 8-11pm
Show runs: January 12 - 26, 2013
Everyone has a BACKSTORY. In February 2012, I was two months from having a PET scan as part of my ongoing treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. This particular scan was significant because it would indicate if the chemotherapy had worked or if I needed more medicine...possibly even a bone marrow transplant. I suddenly had a serious passion to do some work.
I wanted to feel like a teenager again when I felt completely invulnerable. And I wanted to have an adventure.
So I decided to photograph a nude woman on the streets of Los Angeles. Without permits. Guerrilla style.
We went to special locations I had come to love over the years and made pictures when the light was right. A 60-year-old photographer and a 60-year-old 4x5 view camera which only captured one film image at a time.
I shot Carly mostly from the back and watched her as she looked ahead...perhaps seeing into the future.
This is the genesis of the work on these walls.
L.A. Backstory.
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About ERNEST HOLZMAN
In 1974 I graduated from New York University where I studied music and photography. I played drums in jazz and rock groups and sold photographs to the Black Star Agency.
I enrolled at the American Film Institute in 1978 and was granted an internship with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth on the film "Cutter's Way".
Jordan and I became friends and he invited me to work on his next project which was "Blade Runner". I spent the next few years working with him and learning about light.
Eventually I began photographing television commercials and in 1989 I was offered my first dramatic work on "thirtysomething".
For the next twenty-five years I continued working in advertising and television drama including the iconic "My So-Called Life".
In 2001, I was honored by the American Society of Cinematographers for my work on the PBS/Masterpiece Theatre drama "Cora Unashamed".
My wife Terry Anne and I are currently writing screenplays together. Comedies.
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