Los Feliz | Dave Leamon, House of Pies
Dave Leamon, House of Pies, Los Angeles © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Dave Leamon, House of Pies, Los Angeles © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Los Angeles | Little Armenia
Little Armenia, Los Angeles © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Hollywood | Virginia & Erin
Virginia & Erin, Melrose Ave, Hollywood © Doug Kim, Nikon F5, 35-70mm Nikkor, Agfa APX 400
Pasadena | Caltech
Shot on Agfa APX 400, printed on the great Agfa 118.
CalTech, Pasadena © Doug Kim, Nikon F5, 35-70mm Nikkor, Agfa APX 400, Agfa 118
Hollywood | Bar Sinister
Bar Sinister, Hollywood © Doug Kim, Nikon F5, 35-70mm Nikkor, Fuji NPZ
Los Angeles | Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Hollywood | Angelyn & Happy
I don’t think either of them like these two shots. Let’s see if they read my blog.
Angelyn & Happy, Hollywood © Doug Kim, Leica M6 TTL 0.58, 50mm Summicron, Agfa APX 400
Misha Erwitt | Redondo Beach & CBGBs
Cosmo, Redondo Beach, California, 2004 © Misha Erwitt
Well I’ve done a lot of street photography in New York City so let me say something about that. New York is a constant parade of humanity. It’s a very familiar place, but it’s always changing. If you look around there are a lot of amusing juxtapositions, so yes, humor does play a definite part in my work and it’s an element in many of my Leica Gallery pictures that were shot in New York. By contrast, trying to take street pictures in L.A. is challenging. L.A. isn’t a walking city — I considered shooting drive-by pictures and I’m always taking pictures out of my car window, but then you have nowhere to park it. Let’s just say that L.A. isn’t as conducive to street photography.
– Misha Erwitt
Jimmy Gestapo and Murphy's Law, CBGBs, 1985 © Misha Erwitt
Philippe Halsman | Hitchcock, Truffaut
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.
— François Truffaut
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
— Alfred Hitchcock
LOS ANGELES—French film director François Truffaut (left) and Hitchcock, 1962. © Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos
Hollywood | Emily & Aleks
Emily & Aleks, Hollywood; Leica M6 TTL 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Agfa APX 400 © Doug Kim