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Throughout the 1950s, Charles Brittin was the unofficial house photographer for the Beat community that coalesced around the artist Wallace Berman. Brittin settled in Venice Beach, California, in 1951, and his beach shack became a hangout for the Berman circle, which included actors Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper, artist John Altoon, curator Walter Hopps and poet David Meltzer, among many others. A self-taught photographer, Brittin was working as a mailman at the time, and spent much of his free time wandering the streets with a camera; he came to know Venice intimately, and his pictures of the town are freighted with a hushed beauty and forlorn sweetness. In the early 1960s the focus of Brittin's life shifted dramatically when he became involved with the civil rights movement. "I suddenly realized I was compelled to do something," Brittin recalls, "because the times demanded it." As a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality, Brittin documented the dramatic non-violent protests that occurred throughout Southern California, and made a courageous trip to the deep South, in 1965, to assist with the registration of black voters. As the 60s progressed he documented the antiwa

Who reads Charles Brittin - West and South?

Author

Kristine McKenna; Charles Brittin; Lorraine Wild; Michael Kohn Gallery; Exhibition Charles Brittin: West and South

Publisher

Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz ; Santa Monica, Calif.: Foggy Notion Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9783775728362

Category

art

Subjects

Photography, Fiction, History

Rating

4.3 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13