Moshe Brakha’s flashback photography at the Grammy Museum
Madonna is standing before a packed crowd at the Palladium in New York. Stage lights beam overhead. Legions of plastic bracelets dangle from her slender wrists. Her disheveled locks are pulled away from her face. Clutching onto the microphone stand, she glances to her right. Click. The flashy scene from 1983 stands still forever with the help of a guy and his camera.
At the Grammy Museum at downtown’s L.A. Live, this portrait of Madonna and other music heavyweights make up “Occupation Dreamer: The Photography of Moshe Brakha,” the first photography exhibition at the 30,000-square-foot museum. The collection is like a mix tape of images taken from 1976 to 1986 of mostly up-and-coming rock stars of the time.
“I was just trying to capture dreamers living their dream,” said Brakha, 62. “Some lived on nothing. But that didn’t matter. They loved what they did.”
The 30 portraits line the curved wall of the museum’s second floor, each with its own title and story — whether a young Anthony Kiedis lying on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, giving the middle finger to the camera, or New Wave group Devo wearing plastic breasts, or a seductive Diana Ross tangled in pearls atop a tiger rug.
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Source: Los Angeles Times
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