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Robbert Flick | Dutch, 1938 -
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ROBBERT FLICK | LA Diary
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ISBN 978-1-59005-436-9
Hardcover, Slipcased, 12 x 15, 64 pages, 29 duotone plates
Limited edition of 350 numbered and signed copies.
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Robbert Flick, born in Holland in 1939, is a Southern California artist who uses photography as his primary medium. This gorgeous new monograph presents an important, early body of work that would inform Flick’s approach to all of his subsequent artistic activities:
"The late 1960s was an open-ended time with very few boundaries. I was interested in rendering my photographic experience of Los Angeles, and wanted to emphasize the process of that experience. Rather than framing a moment, it became important to acknowledge it. This meant that the act of photographing became a gesture. I was also quite poor and had a limited amount of film. I kept some several dozen self-rolled films in a shoebox; whenever I went out I would reach in for four or five of them, and return them back into the box when exposed, leaving a snippet of leader so the film could be reused. I would have absolutely no idea what was on which film I put in my camera.
At the time I would think of film as an endless continuum, and there was a wish to acknowledge that aspe • ROBBERT FLICK (b. Amersfoort, Holland) is a Southern California artist who uses photography as his primary medium. Flick, a native of Holland, received a B.A. at the University of British Columbia and an M.A. and M.F.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous institutions both nationally and internationally, including Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Bibliotheque National, Paris; Chicago Art Institute; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC. Most recently, Robbert Flick’s work has been featured in Under The Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, at MOCA. The retrospective Robbert Flick: Trajectories was shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art accompanied by a major LACMA/Steidl catalog. Flick is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships, a Ford Foundation Faculty Enrichment Grant and a Flintridge Foundation Award and a County of Los Angeles COLA Award. Flick has been a scholar at the Getty Research Institute and is Professor o