Harris & Ruble • Art, Hollywood’s fashionable showcase for fine art and photography, is pleased to present: “HOLD STILL,” photography by Lauri Gaffin. Photographs with a whimsical sense of humor and an irresistible attraction to beauty. 

May 21-July 6, 2011
Artist's Reception: Saturday, May 21, 5-9pm 

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

----Dorothea Lange 

Lauri Gaffin’s discerning eye is clearly visible in her exceptional photographs. She captures images of people, of nature or even the artificiality of a movie set, with only natural light in full frame, rarely altering her intuition about the shuttered moment.  Hence, Lauri’s photographs record her subjects as they really exist; yet each one is infused with her subtle and poetic point of view.  Her photographs speak with a pictorial eloquence that communicates her whimsical sense of humor and her irresistible attraction to beauty. 

Graduating UCLA in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography, Lauri Gaffin studied primarily with Robert Heineken. While at UCLA, she also learned from artists Peter Goulds, Rita Yokoi and filmmaker Shirley Clark. She received a M.F.A. from the California Institute of Fine Arts in 1977 mentored by conceptual artist John Baldessari.  There, she also had the opportunity to study with Lauri Anderson, John Mandel, Michael Kelly and Doug Huebler. 

Lauri Gaffin has been a photographer since the early 1970’s while also pursuing her “day job” as an exceptionally successful set decorator for film.  Consequently, her inimitable photographs have appeared in such well known films as: Fargo, The Pursuit of Happyness, Six Days Seven Nights, The Ring II, Charlie’s Angels I & II, Ironman I & II and Thor.