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Forcing Nature: Tree in Los Angeles
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Forcing Nature: Tree in Los Angeles Hardcover - 2006

by George Hass; Contribution by Arty Nelson; Contribution by Carolyn Peter


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When most people think of Los Angeles, a sprawling city steeped in diversity and multi-culturalism, trees are rarely the first things to spring to mind. But the city landscape is virtually defined by its trees--all 150 officially approved varieties. Although Angelinos take pride in their trees, they also can take them for granted. Not so for George Haas. If passers-by notice a Date Palm through the corner of their eyes, Haas is more apt to focus on it and redefine the world by shifting attention from the activity of human beings to the activity of trees. Not merely content to capture images through his lens, however, Haas as artist and philosopher bends, stretches, and blurs reality into what we perceive it to be, transforming the raw data of the world into his personal point of view. In the 80 images throughout this book, Haas has forced Nature to do his bidding. Still, Haas's trees are portraits of Los Angeles in all its complexity and quirkiness, and his views of individual trees reveal much about their surroundings and the humans with whom they share their habitat. For Haas, L.A.--like the entire world--is a Garden of Eden, replete with bountiful flora and fauna and, of course, danger. Living in an environment molded by and for humans, each tree precariously presides in a fearful symmetry among the highways, telephone poles, and nondescript buildings. Forcing Nature is a testament to Haas as a photographer, but also as an architect, visionary, prankster, ecologist, and, in his method of reproduction, something of an alchemist. The reader will surely come away looking at the familiar and not merely seeing it. George Haas studied film, photography, and sculpture at Columbia College and The Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York. His photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions, including The School of Art Institute of Chicago, The Bergman Gallery, The Soho Photo Gallery and Club 57. His photographic and written work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, Seventeen, Detour, NME, and Spy Magazine. His stage work has been performed in New York, Boston and Chicago, including No Entiendes and Doris and Inez Speak the Truth. He wrote and directed the feature film Friends and Lovers, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Stephen Baldwin and Claudia Schiffer, distributed by Lion's Gate Films. Photographs from this series have been added to the permanent collection of American Photographers at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C and to The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Mr. Haas currently lives in the Historic Filipinotown district of Los Angeles.

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  • Title Forcing Nature: Tree in Los Angeles
  • Author George Hass; Contribution by Arty Nelson; Contribution by Carolyn Peter
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition FINE
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bunker Hill Publishing Co, Charlestown, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date December 25, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781593730505 / 1593730500
  • Weight 3.05 lbs (1.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.12 x 14.44 x 0.69 in (28.24 x 36.68 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southern California
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
  • Dewey Decimal Code 778.538

About the author

George Haas is a Los Angelan portraitist, film-maker and photographer who works in the grand tradition of American documentary and landscape photography.Arty Nelson writes about art for the LA Weekly, contributed an essay to Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture and is the author of one novel, Technicolor PulpCarolyn Peter is Associate Curator at the Hammer Museum of Los Angeles. She is author of A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope and has contributed essays to numerous books and catalogues including Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000James McCourt, author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz, the tale of the ultimate diva, has been for four decades a frequent to Los Angeles. He has often written on the city's history and culture, most recently in Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture 1447-1985, and in Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake, the continuing saga of Hollywood megastar Kaye Wayfaring. He lives in New york, Washington, DC and Crossmolina, County Mayo, Irelan
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