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by James HIll - 12/30/201306/25/2017

EICHLERS: FRONT DOOR TO A SUBLIMINAL SUBURBIA

With an enthusiasm for mid-century modernism sparked by his home renovation my brother engaged in a fantastically obsessive photo study of the front doors of homes in  Eichler housing tracts at Fairhills, Fairhaven and Fairmeadow in  LA and Orange counties as shown above. 

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by James HIll - 01/23/201206/25/2017

MODERNIZING 1921: SUN-WORSHIPERS AND FREE-THINKERS

Photographed in LA in 1931, barefoot Galka Scheyer adopts a modern attitude in the sundrenched window of Rudolf Schindler’s revolutionary Kings Road House which proposed new arrangements for living and working, defining what it means to be modern, at least in California.

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