Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from 1999 until 2008. He was also the Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
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A master of light (Images by Van Leo courtesy of Hammer Museum) HAMMER MUSEUM: I've never heard of Armenian-Egyptian photographer Van Leo (1921-2002), but the exhibition Becoming Van Leo looks to be an exhaustive tracing of his work, which seems to presage Cindy Sherman and others with its reliance on self-portraiture: Born Levon Boyadjian to Armenian parents in Turkey in 1921, the artist moved to Egypt with his family as a child, eventually settling in Cairo.
There he rose to prominence as one of the Arab world’s most celebrated studio photographers from the 1940s to the 1960s. The exhibition traces Van Leo’s career from his earliest encounters with the camera in the 1930s, in which he used friends and family as models, through his experiments in self-portraiture of the 1940s and 1950s, and onward to his studio work, which extended into the 1990s.
The show runs July 15-November 5, 2023, at the Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd., L.A.) CNN: Trump was caught on audio freely discussing top-secret material he stole.
