
The Sun Shone Glaringly
- Publisher
- The Ice Plant
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN
- 978-0-9897859-0-7
- Specifications
- Paperback
Swiss binding
17.8 × 22.9 cm
80 pages
39 color photographs
Edition: 1000
One of photoeye's Best Books 2014
Seth Lower's second photobook explores an observation he made about Los Angeles after moving there in 2010: it is not always easy to tell what is spontaneous or real from what is mediated. The comically unresolved drama of an unnamed "hero" emerges from photographs of generic, oddly familiar movie-set locations around the city, portraits of aspiring actors glaring into the sun, awkwardly poetic dialogue and screenplay notations lifted or modified from Hollywood blockbusters, and Lower's own fabrications and anecdotes. How do popular representations of Los Angeles affect everyday life in the city?