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I Ill of 60 photographs taken by TamahaU the day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki Ends Nov. 19. University Art Museum, Cai State Long Beach (1250 BelMower Blvd. (310) 985-5761). noon-8 Fri.

-Sat, noon-5 p.m. "Selective Evidence: Photographs From the Peckenpaugh Gift" includes works, photo etchings and portfolios by Sebastiao Salgado, Marion Post-Wolcott, Robert Janz and others. Ends Oct 1. na Beach, (714) 494-8971). 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

"Industrial California: Early 20th-century Photographs From the Stephen White Collection Ends Oct 8. 6. LA. County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Los Angeles, (213) 857-6000). 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fit, 10 a.nt-9 p.m.; 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

"P.LJLN.: Photography Los Angeles Now," a look at contemporary photographic activity in Los Angeles. Includes works by 65 area artists. Ends today. 4 Museum of Photographic Arts (Balboa Park, 1649 El Prado, San Diego. (619) 238-7559).

Daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. "Poinu of Entry: A Nation of An exhibition composed of documentary photos, portraiture, cartoons, illustrations and broadsides documents immigration from the 1840s to the present Ends Nov. 5. 6. Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 Sute St, Sanu Barbara, (805) 963-4364).

11 p.m.; noon-5 pjn. "A Poetic Vision: The Photographs of Anne Brigman," a retrospective exhibition including more than 75 images by the noted California pictorialist Ends Nov. 5. lery, 464 N. Robertson West Hollywood, (310) 657-1101).

Acrylic paintings on mixografia paper and a copper assemblage. Ends Nov. 4. Perry Araeipour (Kiyo Higashi Gallery, 8332 Melrose (213) 655-2482). Recent abstract paintings.

Ends Oct 14. Rick (Garth Clark Gallery. 170 S. La Brea (213) 939-2189). Early raku pieces, anthropomorphic gas cans and other works.

Ends Sat Bella Feldnun: UtilityFutility and Takako Yamaguch! (Jan Baum Gallery, 170 S. La Brea West Hollywood, (213) 932-0170). Sculpture and painting works. Ends Oct 21. Jim Hermann: Weaves (Richard Telles Fine Art, 7380 Beverly (213) 965-5578).

Ends Oct 7. Eva Kokwvary and Paul Kolosvary: Good AngelsBad Angels (Heritage Gallery, 718 N. La Cienega (310) 652-7738). Assemblages and mixed media. Ends Oct 7.

Femand La ger: Paintings Watercolors and Drawings (Louis Stern Fine Arts, 9002 Melrose West Hollywood, (310) 276-0147). Ends Nov. 8. Helen Lundeberg Then and Now A Retrospective (Tobey C. Moss Gallery, 7321 Beverly (213) 933-5523).

A retrospective exhibition chronicling 60 years of work by the Los Angeles postsurrealist Ends Oct 31. Andrea Makl and Diana Holland (Kan tor Gallery, 8642 Melrose West Hollywood, (310) 659-5388). Ends Nov. 1. Lucia Maya: Las Moradas de Perse'fone (The Lairs of Persephone) (Iturralde Gallery, 154 N.

La Brea (213) 937-4267). Recent paintings. Ends Oct 14. Kevin Miller. Orbit (Newspace, 5241 Melrose (213) 469-9353).

Paintings on canvas and glass and recent sculpture. Ends Oct 14. Daniel Nadeau: The Disco Years (Couturier Gallery, 166 N. La Brea West Hollywood, (213) 933-5557). Conceptual works using razor blades.

Ends Oct 14. Raymond Pettibon: Drawings (Regen Projects, 629 N. Almont Drive, (310) 276-5424). Ends Oct 4. Richard Turtle (Kohn Turner Gallery, 9006 Melrose (310) 271-4453).

Recent drawings and sculptures. Group Shows: Arman: Starry Night; Tony Cragg: Solid States; Roger Herman: New Paintings and David Mach: Matchheads (Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, 5514 Wilshire (213) 935-4411). Through Oct Handprints A Notations (LizardiHarp Gallery, 8678 Melrose (310) 358-5680). Monoprints, lithographs, etchings and other works by Christopher Brown, Miguel Conde, Lesley Dill, Wade Hoefer, Kathryn Jacob) and May Stevens. Ends Sept 30.

Painting Beyond the Idea (Manny Silverman Gallery, 619 N. Almont Drive, (310) 659-8256). An exhibition of paintings by 13 contemporary L.A. artists including Ed Moses, Lari Pittman and Dennis Hol-lingsworth. Ends Oct 28.

CONTINUING Continued from Page 63 I Tim Elmer (Rosamund Felsen Gallery, 2525 i Michigan B-4, Santa Monica, (310) 828-8488). An exhibition of recent paint-: tags. Ends Oct. 7. i Vernon Fisher: The Heart of Darkness Mark i Moore Gallery, 2032-A Broadway, Santa i Monica, (310) 453-3031 An installation of recent works.

Ends Oct. 14. Susan Harlan: Layers of LifeStrata Vitas (Sherry Frumkin Gallery, 2525 Michigan T-l, Santa Monica, (310) 453-1850). Large and small-scale paintings and sculpture. Ends Oct 14.

i Allen Harrison (Tortue Gallery, 2917 Santa Monica Santa Monica, (310) 828-8878). Recent paintings. Ends Oct 21. T. Kelly Mason: High Points Drifter (Marc Foxx Gallery, 3026 Nebraska Santa Monica, (310) 315-2841).

An installation exhibition composed of photographs, drawings and other works. Ends Oct 7. Yolande McKay, Saponacity (Richard Heller Gallery, 2525 Michigan B-5, Sanu Monica, (310) 453-2791). Works composed of soap, mixed with oil paint pigment and other materials. Ends Oct 7.

Gregory A.J. Miller: The Viper Room (William Turner Gallery, 69 Market St, Venice, (310) 392-8399). A series of paintings and sculptures on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Ends Oct 15.

John O'Reilly: Still Life Collages 1987-1995 and Paa White: Paintings (Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 2525 Michigan B-l, Sanu Monica, (310) 453-7535). Ends Oct 21. Robert Overby (Burnett Miller Gallery, 2525 Michigan B-2, Santa Monica, (310) 315-9961 A selection of works from the early 70s. Ends Nov. 4.

Slgmar Polka (Burnett Miller Gallery, 2525 Michigan B2, Sanu Monica, (310) 315-9961 Through Sept Elsa Rady and Jeffrey Yoshlmine: Walls (Patricia Fame Gallery, 2525 Michigan B-7, Sanu Monica, (310) 449-1479). (Recent porcelain vessels and paintings. Ends Oct 21. Karen Roarke: Illumination (Ruth Bachof-ner Gallery, 2046 Broadway, Sanu Monica, (310) 829-3300). Recent paintings.

Ends Oct 14. John Rose: California Blond (Boritz-erGrayHamano Gallery, 2525 Michigan D-4, Sanu Monica. (310) 315-9502). New sculpture made of poplar wood. Ends Oct2.

Richard Sedivy (Hunsa'kerSchlesinger Fine Art, 2525 Michigan T-3, Sanu Monica, (310) 828-1133). Recent paintings. Ends Oct 28. Charles Spurrier and Julian Goldwhite (Christopher Grimes Gallery, 916 Colorado Sanu Monica, (310) 587-3373). Ends i Group Shows: Eight Artists, Eight Views of the Figure (Koplin Gallery, 1438 9th St, Sanu Moni-i ca, (310) 319-9956).

Works by Theophilus Brown, Lesley Dill, Martha Mayer Erle-bacher, Stephen Namara, Edward Schmidt Joyce Treiman, Kent Twitchell and Pame-: la Wilson. Ends Oct 7. Harvest Moon (Tatistcheff Rogers, 2042 Broadway, Sanu Monica, (310) 449-1240). New paintings by Larry Cohen, Philip Geiger, Harry Orlyk, Adam Schniuer and Jeanette Paisin Sloan. Ends Sept 30.

i Presence: Recent Portraits (Angles Gal-. lery, 2230 Main St, Sanu Monica, (310) 396-5019). PortraiU by Uu Barth, Buzz Spector, i. Use Haider, Hiroshi Sugimoto and others, Ends Sat WEST A. Karel Appel: Recent Works (Remba Gal i Compiled by Lisa Boone.

Commercial art galleries with occasional photo shows may also be included in the art listings. Accessibility and facilities for the disabled are indicated by the wheelchair symbol: 6. OPENINGS TODAY Allure (Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2525 Michigan A-7, Sanu Monica, (310) 453-6463). Rare vintage photographs of Hollywood stars by James Abbe, Robert Coburn, George Hurrell and others. Ends Oct 26.

FRIDAY Encore Man Rayt Encore Outerbrldgel (G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, 908 Colorado Santa Monica, (310) 394-5558). The fourth act in the gallery's "Victory Over the Sun, a 20th-Anniversary Celebration in Five Acts" features photographs by the two modernists. Ends Oct 29. CONTINUING MUSEUMS J.

Paul Getty Museum (17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, (310) 458-2003). 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Parking reservations required; no walk-in traffic permitted. "Vision in Motion: The Photographs of Laszk! Moholy-Nagy" includes 40 vintage prints by the Bauhaus photographer. Ends Oct8.6.

Laguna Art Museum (307 Cliff Drive, Lagu- Brigman Continued from Page 62 the curtain on Brigman's style of work.) The Symbolist impulse can be seen in the show's very first image. A circular picture, "The Spirit of Photography" (1908), shows a young woman dressed in a diaphanous gown, seated and holding a camera like some latter-day Greek maiden with a lyre. The camera's lens is pointed toward a glass sphere, ready to capture a picture of the nearly invisible orb of light and air. The evocative glass sphere turns up in several Brigman pictures (including "The as if it was a talisman for the fragile, mysterious beauty of the world. Yet Brigman's actual signature is found in another motif.

The female nude in nature, especially the nude entwined with the dramatic pine and juniper of the rugged Sierra Nevada appears in her work as early as 1905, and it continues again and again into the 1920s. Of course, these also represent a more exalted origin for all those cheesecake girlie pictures of buxom babes in the woods common to 1950s and 1960s calendar art. But Brigman's photographs are determined to endow the world with magic, by visually fusing youthful, sprite-like female forms with those PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERIES Dick Arentz: "Recent Panoramic Landscapes" (Gallery of Contemporary Photography, 2431 -B Main St, SanU Monica, (310) 399-4282). Ends Oct 1. Karl Btossfektt and Imogen Cunningham: Photographs (Kohn Turner Gallery, 9006 Melrose (310) 271-4453).

Opera VeniceMilan (Gallery RAM, 2525 Michigan A-2, SanU Monica, (310) 453-0043). Photographs by John Gossage. Ends Nov. 10. August Sander and tha Bechers (Paul Kopeiken Gallery, 170 S.

La Brea (213) 937-0765). Photographic works by the three noted German photographers. Ends Oct 21. Rubin Ortiz-Torres: The House of Mirrors and Vintage Photographs by W. Eugene Smith (Jan Kesner Gallery, 164 N.

La Brea, (213) 938-6834). Ends Oct 14. Bill Witt Photo League and Other Work (Stephen Cohen Gallery, 7358 Beverly (213) 937-5525). Documentary photographs and female nudes. Ends Nov.

11. Group Shows: The PortraitThe Nude (Fahey Klein Gallery, 148 N. La Brea (213) 934-2250). This group exhibition includes works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Tina Modotti and Edward Weston. Ends Oct 14.

Brian Wood, Mary-Beth Heffernan: Becoming and Susan Sllton: Self -Portraits (Craig Krull Gallery, 2525 Michigan B-3, Sanu Monica, (310) 828-6410). Ends Oct 14. approach to landscape than before. Now, temporal grains of glistening sand carry the poetic weight once ascribed to mountain wilderness. Santa Barbara Museum curator Karen Sinsheimer and catalogue essayist Susan Ehrens have done a good job bringing Brigman's life and art back into the light And although I don't think they have gone quite far enough in separating her out as a distinctive artist within the Pictorialist genre, the rediscovery and resuscitation of the reputation of an artist too easily forgotten to history is among a museum's most significant accomplishments.

If "A Poetic Vision" does not fully perform the task for Anne Brigman, it has admirably begun the necessary labor. "A Poetic The Photographs of Anne Brigman," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Through Nov. 5. Closed Mondays.

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noon-4 p.m.; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. "Walking in Beauty: A Photo Documentary of Navajo Culture Reflecting the Native View," photos by Akiko AriU with photo selection by the Navajo community. Ends Sept 29. Art Gallery, Cal Stat Los Angeles (213) 343-4040). noon-5 p.m.

"Ve-raCITY," group exhibition with the focus on the documentary photographer. With traditional photography, installations, videos and a collaborative artists' book. A satellite show of LACMA's "P.L.A.N., Photography Los Angeles Now." Ends Oct 5. California Museum of Photography (UC Riverside, 3824 Main St, Riverside, (909) 787-4787). Wed-Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; noon-5 p.m.

"Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata." An exhibition ART of ancient, weathered nature. Sometimes, as in "Invictus," you even have to look twice to find the figure within the gnarled tree. The exhibition convincingly proposes that, as a woman, Brigman had different, less objectified uses for female nudes than did many male artists, who typically photographed them indoors in theatrical studio settings, not outdoors in the wilderness. No simplistic equation between Woman and Nature is being drawn; instead, it's easy to see an artist's self-invention being undertaken through her art After her move to Long Beach, Brigman no longer had the Sierra at hand in which to photograph; she had also begun to devote more of her time to writing poetry. (Snippets in the catalogue are pretty corny.) The quantity of her production, never large to begin with, slowed.

However, a provocative group of pictures from the 1930s, not often seen, offers a surprising conclusion to the show. At first they bear a certain resemblance to straight photographs close-up images of a cactus or a palm frond or intimate images of the seaside patterns left in sand as the tide recedes. Closer inspection reveals none of the sharpness and clarity of a Weston or a Cunningham, though, and all of the soft, graphite-like surfaces common to her earlier work. Deprived of Sierra grandeur, Brigman simply took a far more intimate but nonetheless Symbolist DOWNTOWN EASTSIDEVALLEYS Ernesto da la Una: Violence and Serenity (Granados 2 Gallery, 3221 Glendale (213) 662-9930). Recent paintings.

Ends Oct 14. Enzia Farrell: Sacred Women (Random Gallery, 6040 N. Figueroa St, Highland Park, (213) 550-8000). Recent paintings. Ends Oct 14.

Kymber Holt Abloom (Amanda M. Obering, 1618 Silver Lake (213) 665-6319). Recent drawings and paintings using textile patterns, wallpaper and weavings. Ends Sept 30. Group Show: Bumpy and Leonard Bravo (POST, 1904 E.

7th Place, (213) 488-3379). Group show includes Leonard Bravo, Habib Kheradyar, Anders Lansings and others. Also, a solo exhibition of paintings by Leonard Bravo. Ends Oct 14. For home delivery, call 1-800-252-9141.

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