August 24, 2018 - Comments Off on LAAC Fall Meetup
View through the arches, Chapman Park Market in Koreatown, 1929
Escala
3451 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020
Street and valet parking. Less than 10 minutes walk from the Wilshire/ Vermont and Wilshire/ Normandie stations.
Please RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/269430953675371/
August 3, 2018 - Comments Off on LAAC Fall Community Planning Meeting
All are invited to join us for our Fall Community Planning Meeting, immediately prior to September's Conversations in the Park Meetup.
Vista Hermosa Park
100 N Toluca St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
The agenda will include:
We'll also open up the floor for feedback and brainstorming. Bring a blanket, and snack or drink to share!
Meeting Minutes will be posted to the LAAC Google Group. Anyone unable to attend is encouraged to email agenda items to laacollective@gmail.com
July 11, 2018 - Comments Off on LAAC Summer Meet-Up
“The Story,” http://idlehourbar.com/
Idle Hour
4824 N Vineland Ave, Los Angeles CA 91601
Street parking and only a 5 minute walk from the Metro Red Line North Hollywood Station.
Happy hour menu until 7 pm.
Please RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1867609260209393/
July 3, 2018 - Comments Off on **DEADLINE EXTENDED** Call for Pitches- Acid Free
Sex Explained! 1926 advertisement via Tom Simpson https://www.flickr.com/photos/randar/19757541235/
Acid Free, the online quarterly magazine of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, is welcoming contributions for its upcoming issue. Acid Free seeks to be a smart, complicated, non-academic forum for a variety of voices and issues in our field, to ground archivists locally and regionally while also keeping an eye toward larger conversations and landscapes.
The theme of our September 2018 issue will be SEX, which can be broadly interpreted through an archival lens. Possible topics may include: sexual and reproductive health; documenting the AIDS crisis; sex discrimination; or other takes on the theme. Articles can highlight documents, collections, or exhibitions; explore local landmarks; or address theme-related subjects and issues in the profession.
Pitch us your idea by telling us in a few sentences what your article is about and how it relates to SEX and archives. Please keep in mind our submission guidelines* and check out current and past issues of Acid Free for examples.
Pitches will now be accepted through **July 20** at: acidfree@laacollective.org.
Thanks from the Acid Free team.
*Articles can be any length, but we recommend keeping 1,000-2,000 words with captioned images in .jpg format.
July 3, 2018 - Comments Off on LAAC Book Club No. 17
We will be reading the book, Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos.
Excerpt: The story of the Vivian Maier phenomenon has been told so many times that it can now be reduced to a few short phrases:
Her storage lockers went into arrears.
A young man named John Maloof bought a box of her negatives.
He googled her name and found that she had died a few days earlier.
He discovered the woman known today as the mysterious nanny street photographer.
But rarely is a story as simple as the filtered- down version that results from multiple retellings. Each link in the chain of the Vivian Maier story branches to reveal a much more complex and nuanced saga. Our current lack of understanding of this woman and her passion for photography stems from oversimplifications of her emergence and packaged versions of the story. Ethical issues have largely been glossed over in favor of a heroic narrative that benefits the people who have been selling her work. We are told that they have saved Vivian Maier from oblivion and have allowed us to own pieces of her legacy.
Let us know if you can’t get a copy of the book, we can help get you one.
Can’t make the meeting, but are still reading the articles? Let us know!
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