Jim McHugh
(born 1940)
Selected images, Los Angeles, c. 2010

10 archival pigment prints, each signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on the verso; each from the edition of 25.

image: each approximately 21 3/4 x 17 3/8in. (55.3 x 44cm.)
sheet: each 24 x 20in. (61 x 50.8cm.)

Property from the Collection of Betsy and Bud Knapp, Edwards, Colorado

Images as follows:

Black and White (Lady of the Lake); RKO Studios Icon; Wilshire Beauty Supply; El Rey Theatre; The Electric Fountain; The May Company Department Store; Griffith Observatory; Santa Monica, Los Angeles; Los Altos Apartments; and The Muse of Music, (Hollywood Bowl.)

Jim McHugh is renowned for this series, Let’s Get Lost: Polaroids From The Coast, large format Polaroid images of monumental buildings in Los Angeles buildings which have now fallen into disrepair or dereliction.

Each a neutral or warm toned print on semigloss, double-weight paper with margins. Each in very good condition overall (examined in frames.) Each sold framed.

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Ms. Paterson joined Hindman in 2022 and is a nearly 30-year veteran of the photography industry. She began her career in the Photographs Department at Christie’s in New York, and spent 20 years at the auction house becoming a Senior Specialist. Subsequently, she worked at Magnum Photos New York (a prestigious photojournalism collective founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1947) as US Cultural and Print Sales Director and Bonhams as Head of the Photographs Department. Ms. Paterson has extensive knowledge of photography from the 18th to 21st centuries, with a particular interest in works of the American West by Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams.

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Jim McHugh (born 1940)Selected images, Los Angeles, c. 2010

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Jim McHugh
(born 1940)
Selected images, Los Angeles, c. 2010