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If you've lived in Los Angeles all your life, you may not realize how strange the city can be.

Sometimes it takes leaving the city and coming back to recognize some of the absurdity that exists in this town.

And I look at a lot of photographs that are made by photographers from and who live outside of Los Angeles who come to the city.

And many of them don't capture the absurdity of that they exist in this town.

But David Strick is certainly that exception because his work for the last several decades has definitely tapped into that.

It started as a result of an editorial assignment, but since then,

he's been making his living as an editorial, advertising, and corporate photographer,

focusing mostly on the motion picture industry.

And if movies and television is the only way that you know anything about Los Angeles,

while you're kind of missing out, because this place can be the source of some great humor,

and David's images really reveal that.

You may be familiar with some of his photographs because he had a regular photo column in

Premier Magazine and later in the Los Angeles Times.

And when you take a look at his photographs, you get to see how weird this city can be.

Not just the movie business, but just L.A. period.

And it's one of the great things about his photographs that I appreciate so much.

And I'm really pleased that after a long time coming, I finally have him as a guest on the show.

So sit back and enjoy art conversation with David Strick.

David, first off, thank you. Thank you.

For being on the show. You've been a person who's been mentioned to me several times where I should sit down and interview

and finally got around to doing it.

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