photo l.a., celebrating its 20th Anniversary, is the longest-running art fair west of New York and is the largest photo-based art fair in the country with over 10,000 attendees. It brings together photography dealers from around the globe, displaying the finest contemporary photography, video and multi-media installations along with masterworks from the 19th Century.   photo l.a. is pleased to join with artLA projects to present contemporary art galleries as a prelude to a much larger artLA 2011 that will align with the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Forum, a new art fair in the fall of 2011 created by the team that produces the Armory Show.

photo l.a. XX + artLA projects will be held at the historic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium January 13-17. Highlights of the fair include a spectacular new 7,000 square foot entry area for special installations including an art+photography book fair highlighting self-publishing, artists’ books, on-demand book printing & boutique book publishers. Also new this year is a balcony VIP lounge, lobby café and bookstore and video lounge.  Programming includes collecting seminars, panel discussions on photography and the environment and lectures by Uta Barth, Lyle Ashton Harris, Michael Light, Andrew Moore, David Taylor and others.

LA’s Longest Running Photo Fair Joins artLA projects

Thursday, January 13 through Monday, January 17, 2011

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Opening Reception benefits the

Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at LACMA

WHERE:

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

1855 Main St.

Santa Monica, CA 90401

WHEN:

Thursday, January 13 (Opening Reception):    6pm - 9pm

Friday, January 14:                                    11am - 7pm

Saturday, January 15:                                11am - 7pm

Sunday, January 16:                                  11am - 6pm           

INFO:

For more information, to view the schedule of events or to purchase tickets, please visit www.photola.com.