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<span class="text"><font color="#666666" class="text"> <p><span>John Smith’s excellent silver gelatin prints show a gritty City of Angels at its best, shot during what he calls that “civil twilight,” the half-hour before the sun peeks over the horizon.</span><br /> <br /> <!-- <div id="instory">[adsys_ad::instory]</div> --> <span>Lonely shots of Randy’s doughnut shop near Los Angeles International Airport or staples covering a telephone poll, like monarch butterflies clustered on a eucalyptus tree, show a texture not seen in daylight hours. A white dress in sharp focus in a well-lit shop window gives life to an otherwise empty street. The Toronto subway is not just an underground tunnel, but a solitary and epic journey.<br /> <br /> Smith cites Ansel Adams as a big influence, and his black-and-white images of otherwise seedy liquor joints or highway overpasses converging in graceful solitude are made magical by slow exposure film that creates starbursts around street lamps.</span></p> <h5>Melonie Magruder - Glendale News Press</h5> <p> </p> </font></span><br> <h1> articles on john smith's photography</h1>
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