LACMA events

LACMA has got two must-see exhibits on the horizon. Vanity Fair Portraits opens October 26th (you need tickets).
"As the line between photography and celebrity becomes increasingly blurred, this exhibition takes us back to one of the places the two first mingled-in the pages of Vanity Fair magazine. From rare vintage prints from the early twentieth century to today's most provocative portraits, the power of the image is explored in LACMA's must-see exhibition."

RELATED EVENTS
Screening: Pretty Things
October 26 | 1 pm | Bing Theater

Screening: Grey Gardens
January 11 | 1 pm | Bing Theater

Screening: Thin
February 8 | 1 pm | Bing Theater

Screening: Model
February 22 | 1 pm | Brown Auditorium

Panel Discussion: Constructing Celebrity
February 24 | 7 pm | Brown Auditorium




A Story of Photography: The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection

October 5, 2008–February 1, 2009 | Ahmanson Building

A Story of Photography will present highlights of LACMA's newly acquired Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. The collection of more than 3,500 photographs forms one of the finest existing groups of masterworks from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The exhibition, opening on October 5, will show over seventy seminal photographs by Ansel Adams, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, W.H. Fox Talbot, and Edward Weston. Announced on August 11, the acquisition was made possible by a groundbreaking gift from Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation in support of photography. In addition to acquisition of the Vernon Collection, the gift includes a contribution to a new study room, opening in early 2011, that will allow access to the entire photography collection at LACMA. Marjorie and Leonard Vernon were pioneer Los Angeles collectors who, beginning in the 1970s, amassed a group of works with global significance that especially highlighted the riches of West Coast photography in the early and mid-twentieth century. The collection grew over the years to include works by 700 photographers, with the earliest photographs dating from the 1840s.