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Dan Monick - Very Good Photographer, Looks Pretty in Wigs

by Caroline Ryder

November 21, 2006 12:11 PM

This is Dan Monick. He's the girl on the left. Not only does he look very pretty in wigs, as you can see, he also happens to be a very good photographer. This photo was taken shortly after his one-night only show, held Saturday in Downtown L.A.

Monick's pictures look like giant tea-stained polaroids, glamourous yet throwaway, framed by spidery pencil scrawlings that read like lonely little notes-to-self. Colors and textures are heightened when contrasted with the bright, bright whiteness that glows around his subjects like an unholy aura.

Dan Monick takes lots of photos of Annie from Giant Drag. She's very photogenic, whether covered in blood or posing in sultry gray eyeshadow a la Madonna and Child (see above). Monick told me one of his favorite photos in the collection was this one, of a baby.

So impressed were we by his portraits, my roomie Alexis Florio purchased this one for the house, a photograph of a young man in the sea with bad grammar on his t-shirt, and Monick's unintelligible pencil scratchings underneath.

I first met Dan Monick some 18 months ago when we drove to Tijuana together to photograph and interview some Latin bands for Swindle magazine. We ended up getting lost after crossing the border and realizing neither one of us had a map. We found our bands in the end, and ate fish tacos with Nortec Collective at the last taco stand on the beach before the American border. Then we went to a tumbledown old ballroom where Colombian band Aterciopelados were playing. We played hangman in the car all the way back to Hollywood (I won).

Since then Dan, a Taurus who does not like white fluffy dogs with pink skin, has been busy, his photography appearing in Rolling Stone, Paper magazine and many others. He's also Atmosphere's official photographer.

After the show we went to the Wild Hare in Eagle Rock where a bunch of nice people, including Erin from Brother Reade (pictured here with me and Alexis Roomie), were celebrating their birthdays. Happy birthday Erin! And thanks again Dan!

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