HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR AND HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN PHOTO EXHIBITION AT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
(Los Angeles, California – November 8, 2012) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces a new exhibition of photographs documenting Hollywood’s past and present at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Let’s Get Lost: Polaroids from the Coast , features a 30-year collection of large-format Polaroid photographs by Jim McHugh, depicting pre-World War II era landmarks of Los Angeles and portraits of over fifty Hollywood celebrities, and on display in Terminal 3 Arrivals Corridor through February 2013.
The exhibition was assembled by guest curator Joe Lewis, dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine. McHugh’s landscape photos illustrate colorful depictions of memorable buildings, monuments, and theatres with bright, characteristic neon signs, evoking Tinsel Town’s golden era. McHugh’s collection features the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where Marilyn Monroe lived for two years in the 1950s, and a 10-foot wide triptych of the Hollywood Hills and the internationally recognizable Hollywood sign. The exhibition also features a who’s who of Hollywood film and television stars documented through the ubiquitous headshot format, as well as in poignant and humorous portraits.
About Los Angeles World Airports Art Program
Initiated in 1990, the purpose of the LAWA Art Program is to provide opportunities for educational, entertaining, and enriching cultural experiences for the traveling public at LAX and LA/Ontario International Airports and the LAX FlyAway® bus terminal. The program showcases local and regional artists through temporary exhibitions and permanent public art installations, which enhance and humanize the overall travel experience for millions every year.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third in the United States, offering more than 600 daily flights to 91 domestic cities and more than 1,000 weekly nonstop flights to 56 cities in 32 countries on nearly 75 air carriers. It ranks 13th in the world in air cargo tonnage processed. In 2011, LAX served more than 61 million passengers, processed over 1.8 million tons of air cargo valued at nearly $80 billion, and handled 603,912 aircraft operations (landings and takeoffs). LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund.
