Annenberg Space for Photography

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Annenberg Space for Photography
SKYGLOW event at The Annenberg Photo Space in Los Angeles.jpg
SKYGLOW event at The Annenberg Photo Space in Los Angeles
Annenberg Space for Photography
EstablishedMarch 2009 (2009-03) [1]
DissolvedJune 2020 (2020-06)
Location2000 Avenue of the Stars Ste 10, Century City, Los Angeles, CA 90067-4718 [1]
Coordinates 34°02′52″N118°25′14″W / 34.0478861°N 118.4204968°W / 34.0478861; -118.4204968
Type Photography museum
DirectorKatie Hollander [2] [3]
Website www.annenbergphotospace.org

Annenberg Space for Photography was a photography museum in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, which operated from 2009 to 2020.

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The museum was developed and operated by the Annenberg Foundation and opened in March 2009. [4] After closing in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it announced in June 2020 that it would shut down permanently. [5] [6] [7]

History

The goal, according to project creator Wallis Annenberg, was to encourage visitors to see the world in a new way and gain an understanding of the human condition through the eyes of gifted photographers. [8]

As part of the Walls: Defend, Divide, and the Divine [9] exhibition running from October 5, 2019, to December 29, 2019, was Light the Barricades, an interactive public art installation by Candy Chang and James A. Reeves. [10] The goal of the installation was to encourage viewers to contemplate the inner obstructions that are preventing them from reaching their goals and being their authentic selves. Compound of three walls, as described by Chang herself, each one “shines a light on a particular emotional barrier—resentment, judgement, doubt. On one side of the wall, there was a fable that illuminates that topic…on the other side of the wall were three stools where people can sit down and contemplate a particular question related to the topic.”[ citation needed ] The installation consisted of three 8’ x 27’ solar-powered walls illuminated from within (similar to a photographer's lightbox). [11] [12]

Tenth anniversary event

On April 25, 2019, to celebrate its 10th anniversary, The Annenberg Space for Photography hosted a celebration featuring the opening of two separate photography exhibitions, Contact High: A Visual History Of Hip Hop, in conjunction with the west coast debut of Photoville, NYC's largest photography festival. [13] [14]

Closure

On June 8, 2020, founder Wallis Annenberg announced that the museum would not reopen following its temporary closure as a result of the COVID-19 emergency. [15] The announcement noted that it had staged 31 exhibitions visited by almost 1 million people during its 10 years of operations. [5] It donated more than 900 high quality prints of 329 contemporary photographers to the Library of Congress. [16]

References

  1. 1 2 "Annenberg Space for Photography". Annenberg Foundation . Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ "People | Annenberg Foundation". annenberg.org. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ "See animal portraits of endangered and extinct species at National Geographic Photo Ark exhibition". Daily News. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ Gelt, Jessica (March 28, 2009). "Cameras at the ready". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 2, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Vankin, Deborah (June 9, 2020). "One of L.A.'s key showcases for photography is closing for good". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 2, 2025.
  6. ↑ Klewinowski, Caroline (June 16, 2020). "Closing the Annenberg Space for Photography". Musée Magazine. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Annenberg Space for Photography to Close Its Doors After A Decade of Bringing Groundbreaking Exhibitions and Visual Storytelling to the Los Angeles Community". Annenberg Foundation. June 8, 2020. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
  8. ↑ "The Annenberg Space for Photography". PhotoWings. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  9. ↑ "W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine". Annenberg Space for Photography. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Light the Barricades". Annenberg Space for Photography. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  11. ↑ Davies, Helen (August 27, 2021). "10 Placemaking Signage Ideas To Turn A Space Into A Place". frontsigns.com. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  12. ↑ Anderton, Frances (November 19, 2019). "Seeing walls everywhere". KCRW . Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  13. ↑ Sedacca, Matthew (April 23, 2019). "Photoville Is Coming to Los Angeles". The New York Times . Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  14. ↑ Vankin, Deborah. "Photoville L.A.: Another New York art event heads west". latimes.com.
  15. ↑ "The Annenberg Space for Photography to Permanently Close". NBC Los Angeles. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  16. ↑ Orbach Natanson, Barbara (December 10, 2021). "Ready for Research: Contemporary Photography Donated by the Annenberg Foundation". Library of Congress . Retrieved January 4, 2022.
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