Sunset Portfolio by Caroline Walker & Empty New York by Duane Michals

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Caroline Walker's 'Sunset Portfolio' shows scenes from a day in the life of a semi-fictional character at her home in the Hollywood Hills. The model was a former Miss America contestant (Miss Colorado 1977) who, in part was the inspiration for developing the character that I imagined would live in this house and how she would spend her time there. 'Empty New York' is a new series by US photographer Duane Michals and is an elegiac portrait of the city.

Caroline Walker’s artworks 'build upon the cinematic language of Los Angeles life. The icons and emblematic locations of the city are pulled throughout the constructed scenes. The main figure, a former Miss Colorado, becomes an actress in Walker’s paintings, playing into the fantasy and cinematic trope of the LA woman with the enviable life of ease and affluence.' 

'Beautifully realised and now achingly nostalgic, the photographs in Empty New York show us the city frozen in time, just as Eugène Atget, one of Duane Michals’ heroes, commemorated Paris in the early years of the twentieth century. A social history and also a photographic reportage, Duane Michals’ pictorial poem reminds us with every frame how he has earned his place among the greats of American photography.’

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