Friday, July 22, 2016

LACMA Costumes


In 20010, LACMA bought two private collections of incredible historical outfits. They put together a touring exhibition that opened in one of their galleries that I went to see a while back—back before my crisis. They were brilliantly displayed in the cases in which they would travel once the show closed and to tour the USA; the crate lids bore the explanatory text.

I took a lot of photographs and combined them to make this film. I had no idea when I went to see this how that in 2014 I'd be building costumes in this style (out of paper) for a stage play.

I posted this quite a while ago on YouTube (4,000 visitors so far!) but I never posted it on my blog, so ....

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