Jasmine Benjamin: City of Angels

"Jasmine Benjamin has drawn on her experience as a stylist for leading musicians to identify the diverse group of individuals who are defining the new LA style. She has gone to neighborhoods all over Los Angeles to interview and photograph these style innovators in their own clothes where they work and live. These people are not just style innovators but the influential talents who are also creating the new Los Angeles culture in art, music, fashion, and community activism."             -Jeffrey Deitch, gallery owner, New York and Los Angeles"It's easy to go to Los Angeles and be dazzled by the bright lights of Hollywood. But that's far from the case with Jasmine. She's plugged into the subcultures that have shaped the look and feel of LA from the fringes and has taken that distinctive, laid-back attitude into her work as a stylist. Her boundless curiosity has led her to the most unexpected corners of the city. When it comes to mapping out the true style of LA, I couldn't think of a better guide."            -Chioma Nnadi, Editor, Vogue.com & British VogueCITY OF ANGELS features more than 120 portraits of daring, expressive Los Angeles creatives shot in locations across the length and breadth of this vast metropolis. The book features iconic streetwear creators, free spirits from Topanga Canyon, surf and skate kids in Venice Beach, edgy Echo Park hipsters, Los Feliz vintage aficionados, shopgirls and -guys working at boutiques on Melrose, Chicano punks, K-Town cuties, Hollywood royalty, LGBTQAI fashion designers, Laurel Canyon bohemians, Black musicians and artists from South Central and Inglewood as well as from the affluent suburbs of Baldwin Hills and historic Leimert Park. Benjamin shot from Watts to Electric Avenue, Boyle Heights to Sunset Boulevard, Westside to Eastside, pavement to hilltop, alleyway to open field. This body of work perfectly juxtapose beauty with edginess, glamour with urban rawness.