PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN HUMBLE GIVES TALK AT SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:       May 25, 2007
Contact:  Susan Annett, Principal Librarian, (310) 458-8640

John Humble will give a visual presentation about his photographs of Los Angeles on Saturday, June 2 at 2 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium of the Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Boulevard.

Humble, whose exhibition "A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble," is currently on view at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. This exhibition focuses on his photographs of the Los Angeles River and the urban landscape.

For the past 30 years, John Humble has documented Los Angeles in large-scale color photographs that explore what he calls "the incongruities and ironies of the Los Angeles landscape." Humble’s work has been exhibited and published internationally and his photographs are represented in the collections of major museums in the United States.

For more information on this free public program, contact the Santa Monica Public Library at (310) 458-8600; or visit the Library’s web site at www.smpl.org.

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