Forcing Nature

George Haas is a Los Angelan portraitist, film-maker and photographer who works in the grand tradition of American documentary and landscape photography.Arty Nelson writes about art for the LA Weekly, contributed an essay to Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture and is the author of one novel, Technicolor PulpCarolyn Peter is Associate Curator at the Hammer Museum of Los Angeles. She is author of A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope and has contributed essays to numerous books and catalogues including Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000James McCourt, author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz, the tale of the ultimate diva, has been for four decades a frequent to Los Angeles. He has often written on the city's history and culture, most recently in Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture 1447-1985, and in Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake, the continuing saga of Hollywood megastar Kaye Wayfaring. He lives in New york, Washington, DC and Crossmolina, County Mayo, Ireland