Take My Picture Gary Leonard
860 S Broadway
213.622.2256
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Art: Photography
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle: Photographic Landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s
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The Billboard Show
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June 13, 2009 – Aug 31, 2009
Mondays (10am–2pm & 3–6pm)
Tuesdays (10am–2pm)
Wednesdays (10am–2pm & 3–6pm)
Thursdays (10am–2pm)
Fridays (10am–2pm & 3–6pm)
Saturdays (noon–6pm)
Sundays (noon–3pm)
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Ever since taking a photograph of the Dodgers as a little boy in 1959, Gary Leonard has documented the mercurial landscape of Los Angeles, from the political to the cultural and economic. A former employee of billboard advertising company Pacific Outdoor recently gave Leonard thousands of billboard slides, a hundred of which are now on view at Leonard's gallery, Take My Picture (named after his column in various regional publications). Advertising everything from funeral services and early fax machines to civic defense and entertainment, the images provide a rare historical survey of mid-century American commercial design, proving that, much like one of his influences, Weegee, Gary Leonard has an excellent sense of timing.
