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    Untitled L.A. River no.1 (The Los Angeles Sign) from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 2015, Digital c-print, 48 x 72 inches

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  2. Installation view, Staging Los Angeles: Reality, Fantasy, and the Space Between, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November 2015 LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Installation view, Staging Los Angeles: Reality, Fantasy, and the Space Between, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November 2015
  3. Installation view, Staging Los Angeles: Reality, Fantasy, and the Space Between, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November 2015 LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Installation view, Staging Los Angeles: Reality, Fantasy, and the Space Between, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November 2015
  4. Sample Text for Google! LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Installation view, studio) (far left) Untitled LA River no.1 from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 2015, 48 x 72 inches, Digital C-print; 2016, LA-LIKE: Fools Gold Dust (Mimic) Paintings (for Untitled L.A. River no.1), 48 x 72 inches, Black gesso and pulverized pyrite crystallized in epoxy on canvas; (pedestal) LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland), Various sizes, Unique bronze casts; (floor) 2014, LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond (Finch & Hollydale), 13 x 60 x 12 inches, Unique bronze cast

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  5. Studio view LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Studio view


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    LA-LIKE: Day For Night, studio view
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    LA-LIKE: Day For Night, studio view
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    Instagram Detail of Untitled L.A. River no.1 (The Los Angeles Sign) from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 12x12, Digital C-Print, 2015

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    Untitled L.A. River no.10 from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 2015, Digital c-print, 48 x 72 inches

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    Untitled L.A. River no.7 from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 2015, Digital c-print, 48 x 72 inches

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    Untitled L.A. River no.3 from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 2015, Digital c-print, 48 x 72 inches

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    Untitled L.A. River no.2 from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 2015, Digital c-print, 48 x 72 inches

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    Untitled L.A. River no.4 from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 2015, Digital c-print, 48 x 72 inches

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  14. Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight at Patrick Painter Inc, Fall 2018
  15. Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight at Patrick Painter Inc, Fall 2018
  16. Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight at Patrick Painter Inc, Fall 2018
  17. Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight at Patrick Painter Inc, Fall 2018
  18. Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

    Installation View, Sunlight As Spotlight at Patrick Painter Inc, Fall 2018

LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)

Using the system that the movie studios used in the Film Noir days called Day For Night (which consisted of shooting during the day, but filtering to make to look like night), the effect is one where the sunlight actually becomes the spotlight…SUNLIGHT AS SPOTLIGHT.

Projects
  • The New LA-LIKE
    1. LA-LIKE: Sunlight As Spotlight
    2. LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
    3. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics
    4. LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific
    5. LA-LIKE: LA Imaginary As Unlit Lightboxes
    6. LA-LIKE: Fools Gold Dust (Mimic) Paintings
    7. LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)
    8. The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, in conjunction with LAND
    9. LA-LIKE: Mirage
    10. Shangri-LA'd & Expanded Shangri-LA'd
    11. LA-LIKE: Composition I-10, Desert Center
    12. The Manifest Destiny Billboard Perfume
    13. LA Disappearing Frond-Like
    14. LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific, Dessert Concepts & Recipes
    15. For An Evening with Eve Babitz, at the Chateau Marmont
    16. Tear Sheet Posters
    17. LA-LIKE (LOST)
    18. LA-LIKE: LAXART Billboard
    19. The Pools I Shot
    20. LA-LIKE
  • The Michelle duBois Project
    1. The Uniqued Series
    2. The Additive Dust Series
    3. Mae Wested
    4. The Disbanding of Michelle duBois
    5. The Vanishing of Michelle duBois
    6. The Disappearing of Michelle duBois
    7. The Other Disappeared Nurse
    8. Silhouetted
    9. All Her Shadows
    10. Blackened Last Four Days & Nights in Tokyo
    11. Almost the Same
    12. The Unveiling of Michelle duBois
    13. The Unraveling of Michelle duBois
    14. Posed Postcards
    15. Polaroided
    16. The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois
    17. Obfuscated
  • The Santa Cruz Kids
  • Out The Window (LAX)
  • The Fainting Club
    1. The Fainting Club (London)
    2. The Fainting Club (New York)
    3. The Fainting Club (Los Angeles)
    4. The Fainting Club (More Cities)
    5. The Fainting Club (About)
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  • Publications
    1. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books
    2. The Good & The Glamorous, A Memoir of Misremembering & The Cold War
    3. LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific, Published by Hesse Presse, Los Angeles, CA - Spring 2016 (Sold Out)
    4. Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles (May 2015) Published by Metropolis Books
    5. Forthcoming: The Re-duBois Book
    6. Returning to Berlin / Publication curated by Kim Schoen - Motto, Berlin (August 2013)
    7. Why Art Photography? by Lucy Soutter (2013) Published by Routelage
    8. Volume 4: The Disappearance of Michelle duBois, aka *Mitchi* (Fall 2012) Published by Aperture Ideas
    9. Volume 3: The Unveiling of Michelle duBois, aka *Cricket* (Spring 2012) Published by Aperture Ideas
    10. Volume 2: The Unraveling of Michelle duBois, aka *Alice Johnson* (Fall 2011) Published by Aperture Ideas
    11. Volume 1: The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois, aka *Kathy* (Spring 2011) Published by Aperture Ideas
    12. Out the Window (LAX) with essays by Norman Klein, Pico Iyer, & Julian Meyers (2007)
    13. NTNTNT (2004)
    14. L.A. Now: Volume One, Published by Art Center College of Design, August 2002