Michael Schmelling – Your Blues CANADA Seth Lower’s second photobook explores

Seth Lower’s second photobook explores an observation he made about Los Angeles after moving to the city in 2010: the slippages between the real and mediated experience

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Michael Schmelling – Your Blues CANADA Seth Lower’s second photobook exploresIn 2013, the Museum of Contemporary Photography commissioned American photographer Michael Schmelling to make a new series of photographs about music in his hometown of Chicago. Schmelling spent eighteen months immersed in the project, crisscrossing Chicago alone at night, making his way into basement shows, crowded clubs, parties, and recording studios, documenting both the communal culture at large musicians and fans alike and the DIY individualism