Sometimes, when you grow up in a small town, you have to leave and come back to really see it and appreciate it. Tom M. Johnson is about to open a show that celebrates the city of Lakewood, a suburb near Long Beach, California that was his childhood home.
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Tom M. Johnson: Pittsburgh Parking Lot Booths And Their Attendants | LENSCRATCH
Tom M. Johnson: Pittsburgh Parking Lot Booths And Their Attendants
Photographer Tom M. Johnson is a long time west coast friend who moved to Pittsburgh a couple of years ago. Like any transplant or immigrant, it was at first, difficult to make the transition. As a editorial and advertising portrait photographer and an ar
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Photographer Tom M. Johnson is a long time west coast friend who moved to Pittsburgh a couple of years ago. Like any transplant or immigrant, it was at first, difficult to make the transition. As a editorial and advertising portrait photographer and an artist, it required him to reset his compass and focus, but most importantly what Tom packed in his suitcase was his curiosity and humanity. Many of Tom’s personal projects focus on place–one of my favorites is about his childhood neighborhood of Lakewood, California, where he walked the streets capturing neighbors and strangers and details of daily life. In Pittsburgh, he is back walking the streets with two projects, one of making portraits of a broad range of Pittsburgh residents with Pittsburgh Stories, and the second, a poignant typology of Pittsburgh Parking Lot Booths And Their Attendants featured today.
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‘Lakewood: Portraits of a Sacred American Suburb’
‘Lakewood: Portraits of a Sacred American Suburb’ – Feature Shoot
I had never heard of Lakewood until I came across Los Angeles-based photographer Tom M. Johnson’s series. At first look, his visually compelling images drew me in. There is a story being told in each image whether it be a portrait or landscape, and each i
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I had never heard of Lakewood until I came across Los Angeles-based photographer Tom M. Johnson’s series Lakewood: Portraits of a Sacred American Suburb. At first look, his visually compelling images drew me in
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Tom M. Johnson
Tom M. Johnson
I recently received this e-mail from my friend Tom M. Johnson:If you happen to find yourself in Paris next month I invite you to My Private Art Room in the Marais for a glass of champagne. I am having a solo show where I will be exhibiting work from both
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Lakewood: A Photographic Journal of a Sacred American Suburb: I search for provocative portraits and relics of Lakewood’s middle class. I come upon kids riding their bikes whose parents are watchful of strangers but not threatened by them, women tending their yards, and men tinkering inside their garages.
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A Los Angeles Suburb Is Home and Subject
photographer Tom M. Johnson wanders his neighborhood, camera in hand, in search of serendipity. In Lakewood, 20 miles outside of Los Angeles, Mr. Johnson has spent the past decade documenting a town in transition, capturing the intimate details of homes and their inhabitants for his project, “Lakewood: Portraits of a Sacred American Suburb.”