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Join as photographer Michele Asselin presents some of her celebrated photographs of Hollywood Park in its waning days, depicting a world that has been completely erased but not forgotten. Each intimate portrait shows a unique and personal side of the track, from the jockeys to the gamblers to the security guards at the gate. Her landscape photography feels no less human; a discarded receipt or a string of Christmas lights conjures the ghosts of Hollywood Park, absorbing the viewer in the dual pulls of presence and absence, loss and gain, nostalgia for what’s gone and the thrill of what’s to come.
The book Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track (Angel City Press, 2020) spotlights Asselin’s lush photographs and features essays by MacArthur fellow Josh Kun and Grammy-winning writer Lynell George exploring what it means to love a city that’s always in motion. A building can have a historic landmark, but what about a culture, a community—a way of life? Clubhouse Turn is more than a book of photography and more than a book about a race track: it’s a book about who we are when we live in a city—the faces that we never see until we look, the places we forget until they’re gone.
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