John Humble received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Maryland and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. His large-scale color photographs of the ironies and paradoxes of the Los Angeles landscape have been exhibited and published internationally. His work is in numerous collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress, LACMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
In addition to making fine-art photographs of the L.A. landscape, he has also done editorial work for Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Elle, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire, and Geo.
The J. Paul Getty Museum recently exhibited "A Place in the Sun, Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble," from March 27th to July 8th, 2007. The exhibition was accompanied by a book of the same title, also published by The Getty.
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