Thomas michael alleman biography of albert
Albert, age 88, went to his Heavenly Home on Thursday, April 14, He was a loving husband, wonderful father, step-father, grandfather who will be....
Thomas Michael Alleman
When Albert Jean Alleman was born on 30 January , in Louisiana, United States, his father, Joseph Telesphore Alleman, was 21 and his mother.
My love for the European intimacy of that �City by the Bay� left me ill-prepared to embrace or even understand the famous horizontal sprawl of Southern California, and I spent several years heartsick about the sun-blanched nothing-ness of my new hometown.
Over many years and jobs, however, I moved my home deeper and deeper into the heart of Los Angeles, and learned by slow degrees to read the lay of that land. Raymond Chandler and Joan Didion guided my journey into the mythos of the place, and Reyner Banham and Mike Davis explained the hidden codes and messages that were borne in the architecture and politics of the built environment.
Finally, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander urged me onto the streets.
I began using toy cameras to make �urban landscapes� in September of 2001, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.