Anne Fishbein

Sunday in the Park

Anne Fishbein
Photo by Anne Fishbein Amid the crowds that gather at Palisades Park in the summertime, I discovered a group of immobile activists. At first I was sure that I was looking at wax figures. I realized that the motionless shapes were actual people. They were participating in a display of......

From Yaroslavl With Love

Anne Fishbein
These images, from my new book of photographs, On the Way Home, were taken in the Russian city of Yaroslavl between 1990 and 2000. I originally went to Yaroslavl as part of a joint-venture, independent film project between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. Writer-director Chris Schmidt was an......
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Snap!

Anne Fishbein
Cinema Interruptus: LAPD officers showed up mid-take during the filming of a movie tentatively titled Sidekick. What’s the problem, officers? Try a permit, guys. Details, details … when you’re in the 48 Hour Film Project — writing, shooting and editing a short in just two days — you improvise......
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Rear View

Anne Fishbein
Classic-car restorer Jarmo Sallinen with one of his finished projects, Atwater Village, 1/20/03......
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Homeland Security

Anne Fishbein
This man's name is Art. He works for Redflex, the company that supplies and maintains the red-light traffic cameras in Culver City. Every other week Art or a co-worker removes the film and data from each camera. This camera is on Jefferson near Sepulveda......
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Sidewalk Service

Anne Fishbein
Shaniece and her mom, Donna, at their Wane’s Down Home Cooking on Crenshaw and Exposition Elena’s fruit cart, El Relon, at Eastern and Valley in Lincoln Heights Nathaly selling salvadoran tamales in macarthur park Snacks, new high street, downtown Preparing pupusas, Olvera Street, downtown Shrink-wrapped pickles on a vietnamese lunch......

A Photographer's Notes

Anne Fishbein
Photos by Anne Fishbein In the beginning of my working relationship and subsequent friendship with Dorothy Travis, we started an ongoing dialogue about the pictures I should take during what turned out to be the last four months of her life. She knew better than I did how she spent......