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A compelling anti-tourist California in new photo show

So what will you be wearing to the vaccine? I’m thinking casual: a little off-the-shoulder number with an updo. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with your weekly dose of culture news and container ships.

The California gaze

Golden sunsets. Surfers on a beach. The Hollywood sign lording over Los Angeles from a hilltop. Those are the visual tropes of California. And you won’t find any of them in “Golden Hour: California Photography from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” now at the Museum of Art & History in Lancaster. (It’s open!)

Instead, the exhibition, which is drawn from LACMA’s photography collections and organized by the museum’s assistant curator of photography, Eve Schillo, mixes old and new acquisitions in a series of thematic installations centered on themes such as landscape, history, representation and…

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