APRIL 2004 : PHOTO-EXPLORING AT THE ALEXENDRIA HOTEL
A lunch break from the art project turned into a photo exploration of the
aging, but amazing, Alexandria Hotel on the outskirts of Skid Row,
and in the deep shadows of downtown Los Angeles.
Below, Astrid, Darlene, and new art project volunteer,
Kirstin Johnson, in a light filled corner of an old ballroom.
BELOW : adjacent to the luminous ballroom is an old abandoned barroom,
dark as night, except for sporadic, blazing lighbulbs,
under whose distorting light stands Astrid and Darlene
BELOW: Darlene Altemeier Dobbs, Lamp Art Project,
member, studio assistant, and artist-in-residence.
BELOW: Kirstin Johnson, a young artist and photographer,
now volunteering at the Lamp Art Project, while working on her own art,
and studying art at Santa Monica City College.
BELOW : photo of Magdalena Astrid Dahlen by Darlene Altemeier Dobbs.
Ballroom, Alexandria Hotel, 4/5/04.
BELOW : Astrid in cavernous chiarascuro of
Alexandria's abandoned barroom.
BELOW : austere views from Alexandria's high places.
ABOVE AND BELOW : Darlene's painting, "5th & Los Angeles".
BELOW : First image ever, on this website, of the hitherto invisible,
Lamp Art Project Manager, Rory White.
Photo by Magdalena Astrid Dahlen,
in the Ballroom of the Alexandria Hotel. April 5, 2004
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