Meet Louise Anne | LA Marler pop photo artist

We had the good fortune of connecting with Louise Anne and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Louise Anne, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking.

The greatest creative risks I have taken have been the biggest rewards. With an experimental spirit, my moto has been “You never know, unless you try.” Putting my raw self out there has been healing to myself and others. That connects and feels good for all.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.

Growing up in a family business, my intimate knowledge and appreciation of typewriters and story-telling is combined with natural, passionate, self-taught fine art talents.

I bought a new Chevy and moved to Los Angeles with $200 cash. With no mentor, roommate, or actual help, Uncle George in Redondo Beach was kind, although strapped by a failing typewriter business. Having completed my BS college degree, I chose to work in publishing and commercial print. Expanding on my ink and paper roots, adding graphic design, work segued into the creative career I have manifested through a practical path.

A turning point was when I sold my commercial graphics and printing company in Santa Monica and added digital photography to my toolbox. I am not a usual photographer, like for hire. And I love and mastered printing archival fine art, giclées.

TypOwriter series are original photos, popped in digital darkroom, with type-sensitive captions and proper punctuation. camERA artwork features pop art style original photos of vintage cameras. Radios and TV collections were created next. KeyWords are expansive of my love of typewriters and nostalgic keys, haiku poetry and text messaging brevity.

I make small limited editions and large prints. Adding paint to those takes the art to the next level, which is mixed media originals. As a prolific maker, am always creating small batches of new formats and novelties.

The Rangefinder, mid-century lightboxes are a special tribute to photographers’ “tools of the trade.” When you used a 35mm film camera, in order to see what you have on your film, a lightbox was used to edit: determine if it will be cropped, dodged, burned and made into a print, or not. So it is not just backlit art like so many others, it is specific to the subject, concept art.

Being a mid-century gear-head, I saw the typewriters as friendly faces, abundant in character. Then cameras, radios and televisions… Early years were in the 20th century. While being an adult in LA gave me the tech, media, art synergy to create a statement about all this.

My intention is not as much as an affectionate tribute to typewriters role in the culture and my upbringing. Instead, I transform the current world of imaging, emphasizing of the issue of truth, particularly in new media and publishing as well as personally.

I seek to elevate the popular culture of mid-century modern communication tools to a quality and accuracy that younger generations will possibly never know. My work is a poignant statement of our lives as we experience a real paradigm shift. This is relevant across ages and ethnicities, diversely nostalgic and currently relevant simultaneously.

Collectors are mostly international media, authors, photographers, podcasters, film and television enthusiasts and professionals. Contemporary art buyers are hanging my work with artists such ash Keith Harring and Ed Rusche, and Shepard Fairey.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?

The Pacific Ocean is the next best place to be! I love to be near it, in it, on it, listening to it.

My private art studio is the best place to meet, relax, get food delivered or catered, hangout. We do speakeasy salons with live music sometimes. Have to be on the list for this or make appointment.

Beyond Baroque is a wonderful Literary Arts Center. Workshops, performances and the Mike Kelley Gallery are gems.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?

Typist110, Erica, became a loving typewriter friend through the documentary film, that featured me, “Typewriters in the 21st Century.” We still type one another letters. She has been instrumental in connecting me with the most famous typewriter collector, Tom Hanks as well as entering our family Royal green typewriter with 20 pieces of related small business achievements including one of my artworks, into the National Museum – Smithsonian Museum of American History – Business and Industry.

She has all the cred and a surprising genuine attention as a real friend. Erica and her fabulous husband are collectors of my artwork. By her demonstration, I began to type letters to Tom Hanks who would responds by sending me autographed typewriters. He has gifted me 3 of his typewriters to date!

I truly enjoy every typewriter story that has been shared w me. All these people, memories and places collectively are my story. 😉

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