A new way of seeing the architecture of Paul R. Williams, through the lens of artist Janna Ireland
Janna Ireland was born in Philadelphia, but has chosen Los Angeles as her home. She holds an MFA from the UCLA Department of Art and a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU. Ireland is the 2013 recipient of the Snider Prize, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Chicago, and in group exhibitions across the United States and internationally. She has been published in Aperture, Harper’s, Art Papers, Vice, and the Los Angeles Times.
Artist Janna Ireland began photographing Paul Williams’ buildings four years ago.(Janna Ireland ) "In the age of Instagram, architectural photography has become obsessed with the dramatic roof line, the spiral staircase, the silhouette of an austere geometric form that appears to hover over some rugged mountaintop. This is photography that is carefully illuminated and relentlessly filtered, designed to show a building at only its best angles.
Artist Janna Ireland’s approach is quite the opposite. For four years, she has been photographing buildings designed by Paul Revere Williams, the prolific architect, who for more than half a century helped define the landscape of Los Angeles.
Ireland’s images are quiet and often feature mundane details — a dimly lit corner or the point in a home at which three rooms meet. More than 200 of her images are now collected in the book “Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View” (Angel City Press; $60), published in September. "— Carolina Miranda, Jan. 14, 2021
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