Los Angeles 1976

Los Angeles 1976 by Bevan Davies. First limited edition first impression large format hardback (one of 350) in new condition. Signed by Bevan Davies to a label tipped in to the back cover. No markings. The book is in new condition. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

About Los Angeles 1976

Los Angeles, 1976 is an exquisitely-produced collection of Bevan Davies’s photographs of Los Angeles residential architecture. Which is a subject perfectly suited to his working methods at that time. Born in 1941 and educated at the University of Chicago during the 1960s, Bevan Davies hit his intellectual and artistic stride in the 1970s. Therefore, dovetailing perfectly with the uniquely fertile grounds that Los Angeles was becoming during that decade.

From ‘Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments’ by Virginia Heckert

Bevan Davies’s meticulously printed photographs suggest an appreciation of this form of residential architecture with respect both to the facades on which their identities hinge and to the built spaces between those facades. Preferring to photograph during early morning hours on weekends, Davies positioned the film plane of his 8x10-inch camera parallel to the buildings’ fronts, to capture the nuanced play of shadows. The resulting images lend depth to structural and decorative elements that are simultaneously utilitarian and aesthetic.

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