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SlashesGreg Gorman

Soul Food — a midday escape.

Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from noon until 2:00pm, the Annenberg Space for Photography will feature short exhibits of specially selected, themed digital image montages synchronized to popular music. With frequently updated programming, this experience offers visitors a cultural respite from their daily work; food for their souls. Playfully dubbed Soul Food, these mini-exhibits are a midday break and cultural respite for everyone in the area during lunch, and are displayed on our state-of-the-art, high resolution 7'x14' screens, on rotation through the lunch hours.

Currently on exhibit are images of "Dogs" by Karen Kuehn montaged over the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow  by Hawaiian ukelele sensation Israel "Iz" Ka‘ano‘i Kamakawiwo‘ole, and "Skateboarding" by Brendan Klein (recipient of the "Wallis Annenberg Legacy Scholarship for Photography" at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena) montaged over Wanna be in LA  by dynamic, avant-garde garage rock band Eagles of Death Metal.

We have also added two new dynamic presentations to the montages currently on rotation.  Be sure to visit the space to take in the grit and determination of black cowboys seen through the eyes of Manuello Paganelli, as well as the daring acts of stunt men captured by Jeffery R. Werner.

Manuello Paganelli has this captured lesser known, but committed community in cowboy culture, and shows their strength and cool.  Working in the tradition of Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, Paganelli brings an artist’s eyes and a native son’s sensibility to his superb photographs, set to the music of “Yesterday’s Gone” by Evan Beigel and Alex Troup, De Wolfe Music.

Werner has spent nearly three decades photographing all manner of death-defying antics created for TV and film.  This video montage features highlights from his photographic book “Incredible Stunts: The Chaos, Crashes, and Courage of the World’s Wildest Stuntmen and Daredevils with a special Tribute to Evel Knievel,” set to the music of “Wicked Wipeout” by Greg Herzenach, Box of Music