Boasting being the largest exhibition of its kind in the United States , photo l.a. – the 18^th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition – has relocated to Barker Hangar, at Santa Monica Airport , this year. 

Galleries from local areas and from around the world, 70 strong, bring photography from glamour and

Farm Family I   by Rob MacInnis

representative classic photos, to surreal emotional feeling pieces created by Pete Eckert, a blind photographer.  The show had many facets, and while I found that in previous shows, the use of Photoshop had gotten overdone and overstylized, this year its use has matured to reveal some blending of classic photo and computerized art.  The result is a wonderful, more mysterious and frankly beautiful photograph.

Rob MacInnis takes us back to the farm, as he poses barnyard animals in graceful poses to let us decide if food and food production animals show us beauty.  In the same breath we can marvel at the celebrity photos from George Hurrell’s sixty years of glamour photography, featuring just about every beauty of the silver screen from the 1930’s to the 1990’s.  We can be in awe of Tiffany Trenda’s lady in a box camera which feeds back pictures of the viewer, and lets us view another side of our visual reality.

In addition, over a dozen seminars are available to attendees on everything from technique to collecting, as well as some book signings.  The shame is that this great show only lasts a couple of days.  The show gives a great window into the state of photography as it is and has been.