{"id":6451,"date":"2015-06-19T14:53:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2015-06-19T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:53:47","slug":"photograph-or-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2015\/06\/19\/photograph-or-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Photograph or Painting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Guest Blogger, Patrick Bollinger<\/strong>
\nA profile series on the artists and individuals of\u00a0The Art Classic<\/em>, one of this year\u2019s exhibitions at the LA County Fair \u2013 September 4-27, 2015
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\"\"Tom Lamb is an aerial landscape photographer based in Laguna Beach, California. In 1980, Tom founded Lamb Studio, a design, communications and photography workshop focused on environmental and cultural interpretation efforts. His work is published, exhibited and collected internationally.<\/p>\n

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\u201c…Some context, these are aerial photos (not lithos or etchings or paintings) that are NOT manipulated … they are pretty crazy and wonderful.\u201d
\n– Peter Mays, Executive Director – Los Angeles Art Association – Gallery 825
\nAt first glance, I could not figure out what this picture was. The photograph looked like a mixture of shapes, lines and colors that reminded me of an abstract painting. After inspecting it more closely I realized that this was not an abstract painting, but rather an aerial view of land. These shapes and lines were not random brushstrokes, but actual marks on Earth. As Lamb dangles precariously from the side of a helicopter thousands of feet in the air, he is able to capture the never before seen effect of mankind\u2019s impact on our landscape and present it to us as an abstraction of this reality, left for us to interpret its ultimate purpose.<\/p>\n

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Lamb’s work focuses primarily on the environment and is largely influenced by:
\n\u201cThe environment, culture, conservation and the balance of man\u2019s mark on the planet \u2013 especially his mark\u2019s on the land and interplay of nature and time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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His LA river series showcases his focus on the environment and the coexistence of nature and humans.
\n\u201cI became interested with the LA River working with ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) and TPL (Trust for Public Lands) 15 years ago on a special aerial project to document the full length of the river from Chatsworth to Long Beach.\u201d
\nThis was once a normal river that ran through the LA area, but humans have now diverted its flow into man made cement canals.\u00a0 We have also affected the color of this water through pollution, and now it is a dull looking dark green. In his photography Lamb capture\u2019s land that we have changed from its natural state for our human needs, and shows it to us from a perspective that is rarely seen.<\/p>\n

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Tom Lamb\u2019s work will be featured in the Millard Sheets Art Center\u2019s upcoming exhibition\u00a0The Art Classic<\/em>.<\/a>
\nPlease join us this year at the\u00a0LA County Fair<\/a>\u00a0to view Tom’s work and the other artists profiled in this series from the\u00a0Los Angeles Art Association<\/a>\u00a0who were selected for this year\u2019s exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Guest Blogger, Patrick Bollinger A profile series on the artists and individuals of\u00a0The Art Classic, one of this year\u2019s exhibitions at the LA County Fair \u2013 September 4-27, 2015 Tom Lamb is an aerial landscape photographer based in Laguna Beach, California. In 1980, Tom founded Lamb Studio, a design, communications and photography workshop focused…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,10,14],"tags":[75,79,614,708,755,1118,1165],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attractions","category-community-benefit","category-education","category-entertainment","category-funatthefair","tag-art","tag-artwork","tag-la-county-fair","tag-lacf","tag-los-angeles-art-association","tag-the-art-classic","tag-tom-lamb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}