Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com Luke Leuschner Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:09:05 +0000 https://lukeleuschner.com en HOME https://lukeleuschner.com/HOME Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:18:06 +0000 Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com/HOME Luke Leuschner LLeuschner6@gmail.com Some of my work&nbsp;︎︎︎ Luke Leuschner is a California-based researcher interested in the state’s architecture, urban history, and identity.&nbsp;His research focuses on human intervention into the Southern California desert, its landscape, architects, fortunes, and follies.&nbsp; PROJECTS https://lukeleuschner.com/PROJECTS Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:18:06 +0000 Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com/PROJECTS Luke Leuschner &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Selected Projects <img width="2957" height="1774" width_o="2957" height_o="1774" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1e31b691678b21621f5c83204285672dbfa39b09a30311fbf380bb626276b40/RM_Schindler_Toole_House_Palm_Springs_circa1950_Horacio_Acevedo_Davenport_Photographer_3.JPG" data-mid="159152755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1e31b691678b21621f5c83204285672dbfa39b09a30311fbf380bb626276b40/RM_Schindler_Toole_House_Palm_Springs_circa1950_Horacio_Acevedo_Davenport_Photographer_3.JPG" />&nbsp;RUDOLPH SCHINDLER <img width="5880" height="3528" width_o="5880" height_o="3528" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/728af0689c424f3e8e56c4d34cc8f23befa2bf31b3663b2c298c4e38d891cee1/USC-UC1940594.jpg" data-mid="159152767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/728af0689c424f3e8e56c4d34cc8f23befa2bf31b3663b2c298c4e38d891cee1/USC-UC1940594.jpg" /> ALBERT FREY <img width="3440" height="2064" width_o="3440" height_o="2064" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10b86fb4dbb1698da40b7a3507262dd4de0996160b016a0e5e83d267094e0de9/IMG_0617-2.jpeg" data-mid="159152832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10b86fb4dbb1698da40b7a3507262dd4de0996160b016a0e5e83d267094e0de9/IMG_0617-2.jpeg" /> PALM DESERT <img width="1276" height="766" width_o="1276" height_o="766" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a1d70688ee4e0bf77b7f84766a458361e8decb65d4220a4a12593292f4b6acb/Screen-Shot-2022-11-07-at-11.19.24-PM.jpeg" data-mid="159152847" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a1d70688ee4e0bf77b7f84766a458361e8decb65d4220a4a12593292f4b6acb/Screen-Shot-2022-11-07-at-11.19.24-PM.jpeg" />&nbsp;SMOKE TREE RANCH <img width="1405" height="843" width_o="1405" height_o="843" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd1cfda98fddea6a650468481ff3c177531086327e59881a21a825fef2a8df3d/Image-7-9-22-at-3.00-PM.jpg" data-mid="159152986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd1cfda98fddea6a650468481ff3c177531086327e59881a21a825fef2a8df3d/Image-7-9-22-at-3.00-PM.jpg" /> LEUSCHNER <img width="3419" height="2051" width_o="3419" height_o="2051" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66b74b8e93a4ee561a875fd2c83f8a0cf2ac980146ef386eedb1e6b33b059481/IMG_1128.jpeg" data-mid="159153869" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66b74b8e93a4ee561a875fd2c83f8a0cf2ac980146ef386eedb1e6b33b059481/IMG_1128.jpeg" />&nbsp;TRAVELEZE SCHINDLER https://lukeleuschner.com/SCHINDLER-1 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:34:34 +0000 Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com/SCHINDLER-1 Luke Leuschner &nbsp; &nbsp; Selected Projects &gt; &nbsp; R. 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SCHINDLER IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT <img width="3127" height="2155" width_o="3127" height_o="2155" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e073075f3c36c11218b1115329396bdc6c440b36470aa7f1b350a9166f5e64c2/RM_Schindler_Toole_House_Palm_Springs_circa1950_Horacio_Acevedo_Davenport_Photographer_3.JPG" data-mid="159046447" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e073075f3c36c11218b1115329396bdc6c440b36470aa7f1b350a9166f5e64c2/RM_Schindler_Toole_House_Palm_Springs_circa1950_Horacio_Acevedo_Davenport_Photographer_3.JPG" /> <img width="624" height="644" width_o="624" height_o="644" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/930f79ca6339a101e89513a40ffb62e7d21ffb0145052058c3628158de27ef38/unnamed-3.jpg" data-mid="159046489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/624/i/930f79ca6339a101e89513a40ffb62e7d21ffb0145052058c3628158de27ef38/unnamed-3.jpg" /> <img width="1982" height="1245" width_o="1982" height_o="1245" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36171d8bc49e3f14e71c7135670bc948f707422dddf4dbdcd28a5d1d0310ed7a/popenoe-jpeg1.png" data-mid="159046500" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36171d8bc49e3f14e71c7135670bc948f707422dddf4dbdcd28a5d1d0310ed7a/popenoe-jpeg1.png" /> <img width="1201" height="1425" width_o="1201" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4af01790ce49c49a76491a9d027395f976e74498c7132c93443426055b54e3dd/Screen-Shot-2022-10-30-at-9.46.57-PM.png" data-mid="159046518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4af01790ce49c49a76491a9d027395f976e74498c7132c93443426055b54e3dd/Screen-Shot-2022-10-30-at-9.46.57-PM.png" /> <img width="808" height="1070" width_o="808" height_o="1070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/537c286fe5d791c65d510123dd29f5033a6953d55b4492a3c6b0391225c19932/Screen-Shot-2022-11-14-at-5.40.15-PM.png" data-mid="159046597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/808/i/537c286fe5d791c65d510123dd29f5033a6953d55b4492a3c6b0391225c19932/Screen-Shot-2022-11-14-at-5.40.15-PM.png" /> Photo credits (top to bottom, L to R): Toole Residence, ca. 1950 by Horacio Acevedo Davenport; Toole residence, ca. 1960s, Toole collection; Popenoe cabin, ca. 1925, collection of author; California Arts &amp; Architecture; Popenoe cabin, ca. 1927, courtesy Popenoe family.&nbsp; I came to live and work in California. I camped under the open sky, in the redwoods, on the beach, the foothills and the desert. I tested its adobe, its granite, and its sky. And out of a carefully built up conception of how the human BEING could grow roots in this soil — unique and delightful — I built my house. -Rudolph Schindler to Esther McCoy, 1952 Shortly after leaving the office of Frank Lloyd Wright and building his King’s Road studio, Rudolph Schindler received one of his first commissions as an indepedent architect: a tiny $2000 cabin in Coachella, CA. Over the course of his career, Schindler would design around a dozen buildings and subdivisions in California’s desert. The Paul Popenoe cabin (1922) and the Maryon E. Toole residence (1946-1948) were the only two desert projects built during his career, and only the latter stands.&nbsp; R. M. Schindler in the California Desert is the (working) title for my forthcoming publication on the topic, and addresses a section of Schindler’s career that has been largely undocumented. From Los Angeles bohemians to eugenicists, this research is not as much an architectural history as it is a social history of the California desert, the people who built homes there, and the architects who followed suit.&nbsp; This project is made possible by a generous research grant from the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation. FREY https://lukeleuschner.com/FREY Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:42:21 +0000 Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com/FREY Luke Leuschner &nbsp; &nbsp; Selected Projects &gt; &nbsp; ALBERT FREY <img width="800" height="647" width_o="800" height_o="647" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6d76339547b198a3bf40cbe27519cb8f6fd0aa5ae41a6783b6ed15db1967133/1d379d75bef124ec582bdbe4741242af.jpg" data-mid="159046995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/f6d76339547b198a3bf40cbe27519cb8f6fd0aa5ae41a6783b6ed15db1967133/1d379d75bef124ec582bdbe4741242af.jpg" /> <img width="518" height="761" width_o="518" height_o="761" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e054ff05b2069afccc138b316bed31c5ec4e96f94653ee44c64b8f235b29f6f8/5a75db7eaa90a1b2dae9fa31be0387bc.jpg" data-mid="159047005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/518/i/e054ff05b2069afccc138b316bed31c5ec4e96f94653ee44c64b8f235b29f6f8/5a75db7eaa90a1b2dae9fa31be0387bc.jpg" /> <img width="6028" height="4039" width_o="6028" height_o="4039" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95e646312c7a40d4f2f31641f69a031a8af4a36a024cfce37fb735d03c7a4c86/USC-UC1STO698551.jpg" data-mid="159047046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95e646312c7a40d4f2f31641f69a031a8af4a36a024cfce37fb735d03c7a4c86/USC-UC1STO698551.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2364" width_o="3000" height_o="2364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/065e77a6ffcab61e5ae69ff194a63c6f822d6ffd6867366e67dfdc9cd629dfde/gri_2004_r_10_b0039_3875_04k.jpg" data-mid="159047251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/065e77a6ffcab61e5ae69ff194a63c6f822d6ffd6867366e67dfdc9cd629dfde/gri_2004_r_10_b0039_3875_04k.jpg" /> <img width="4518" height="6546" width_o="4518" height_o="6546" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11ea768a92d5391d8818c37a8be4db8fd76fe027c4994499db4f089ab7a6dbb6/USC-UC1940602.jpg" data-mid="159047339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11ea768a92d5391d8818c37a8be4db8fd76fe027c4994499db4f089ab7a6dbb6/USC-UC1940602.jpg" /> <img width="5880" height="4046" width_o="5880" height_o="4046" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7c7b5f2d6de86e0710c92f32f34db6d279815747f36643d384f9acd8b78b0e3/USC-UC1940594.jpg" data-mid="159047338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7c7b5f2d6de86e0710c92f32f34db6d279815747f36643d384f9acd8b78b0e3/USC-UC1940594.jpg" /> Photo credits (top to bottom, L to R): Palm Springs Historical Society; Albert Frey Collection, UC Santa Barbara; Fritz Block Collection, USC; Julius Shulman Collection, Getty Research Institute; Fritz Block Collection, USC.&nbsp; The Swiss-born Albert Frey emerged from the Parisian offices of Le Corbusier at the height of the Great Depression, and after a number of transatlantic voyages and architecture offices, found himself in Palm Springs, CA. It was a far cry from his homeland of Switzerland, but it was there that he pioneered Desert Modernism and designed some of the California’s most iconic structures.&nbsp; Frey’s portfolio presents a number of answers to what it means to live and build in the desert, from his stucco Kocher-Samson building (1934) to his personal homes, Frey I (1940) and Frey II (1963), to his fantastical North Shore Yacht Club (1958) on the Salton Sea. And he never stopped innovating with his favorite material: aluminum.&nbsp; During the summer of 2022 — enabled by a generous grant from the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation — I was the lead historian for the Palm Springs Art Museum’s exhibition Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist, running from January to June of 2024 as curated by designer Brad Dunning. I was a contributor to the corresponding catalog of the same title (Radius Books, 2024) with other texts by Brad Dunning, Joseph Rosa, Paul Goldberger, Barbara Lamprecht, Michael Rotondi, Janice Lyle, Christina Kim, and Yves Behar. In the book, you can find my essay “Modernism on the Desert’s Shores: North Shore Yacht Club and the Remaking of the Salton Sea” and the full project catalog tracing Frey’s entire career that is the culmination of my research.&nbsp; PALM DESERT https://lukeleuschner.com/PALM-DESERT Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:56:54 +0000 Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com/PALM-DESERT Luke Leuschner &nbsp; &nbsp; Selected Projects &gt; &nbsp; PALM DESERT <img width="1836" height="1750" width_o="1836" height_o="1750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29606fa487495df374bb63d4ed6359b63b903089bddc2ea856f9b41f69060bd1/Screen-Shot-2022-11-15-at-11.29.09-AM.png" data-mid="159145052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29606fa487495df374bb63d4ed6359b63b903089bddc2ea856f9b41f69060bd1/Screen-Shot-2022-11-15-at-11.29.09-AM.png" /> <img width="6081" height="4688" width_o="6081" height_o="4688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62955131d7507055ada649433ae6c7657714bb9f4abea9cbbb93e0b07d4b6e33/112-00612.jpg" data-mid="159145349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62955131d7507055ada649433ae6c7657714bb9f4abea9cbbb93e0b07d4b6e33/112-00612.jpg" /> <img width="2188" height="1516" width_o="2188" height_o="1516" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/adba94d316943f6b923295ecf11f65f9836ac5c9b50c9ab702bbd0525b979b9c/Screen-Shot-2021-02-23-at-1.42.43-PM.png" data-mid="159145342" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/adba94d316943f6b923295ecf11f65f9836ac5c9b50c9ab702bbd0525b979b9c/Screen-Shot-2021-02-23-at-1.42.43-PM.png" /> <img width="5479" height="4227" width_o="5479" height_o="4227" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3abdc3ee1429eed6cea616245518e5bc2e7f3c31340d93e76888e89864e4cc98/112-00069.jpg" data-mid="159145372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3abdc3ee1429eed6cea616245518e5bc2e7f3c31340d93e76888e89864e4cc98/112-00069.jpg" /> <img width="2280" height="1578" width_o="2280" height_o="1578" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e84243b5883878de6900501f65efb6fa3c66ff0239cdb419be8d04df57e952c0/Screen-Shot-2022-11-15-at-11.38.03-AM.png" data-mid="159145405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e84243b5883878de6900501f65efb6fa3c66ff0239cdb419be8d04df57e952c0/Screen-Shot-2022-11-15-at-11.38.03-AM.png" /> <img width="1478" height="1364" width_o="1478" height_o="1364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b76402b8cdac22252f8f4ff889dff5fef3b19cbd6c4637d048033af80924dcf/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-7.55.24-AM.png" data-mid="159145450" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b76402b8cdac22252f8f4ff889dff5fef3b19cbd6c4637d048033af80924dcf/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-7.55.24-AM.png" /> Photo credits (top to bottom, L to R): Historical Society of Palm Desert.&nbsp; THERE ARE TWO DESERTS. One is a grim desolate wasteland... This is the desert seen by the stranger speeding along the highway, impatient to be out of “this damnable country.”&nbsp;The other Desert—the real Desert—is not for the eyes of the superficial observer, or the fearful soul or the cynic. -Randall Henderson and J. Wilson McKenney, 1937 Founded and master planned by a syndicate of investors, Palm Desert was a city born in the heat of California’s post-war urban development and speculation. By the time the Palm Desert Corporation began selling lots out of temporary shack in 1946, a swath of raw desert land had been reimagined into an exclusive resort city for the Los Angeles elite, paved over with an elegant subdivision, and centered by the exclusive Shadow Mountain Club. Advertisements by the Corporation touted this “wasteland turned wonderland,” yet very little had changed about the desert itself. To add another dimension of interest, the resultant community was representative of the fight between its two founders: Cliff Henderson, an aviation pioneer and unrelenting California businessman, and Randall Henderson, a virtuous desert writer and founder of the Desert Magazine.&nbsp; Over the past few years, I have engaged with a number of projects which explore the Palm Desert Corporation’s intervention into this landscape and the ways in which they reimagined it,&nbsp;from modernist buildings to racial covenants.&nbsp; From 2020-2021, I worked alongside the Historical Society of Palm Desert’s archivist Rochelle McCune on an overhaul of the organization’s archives, consisting of Cliff Henderson’s complete archive of the Palm Desert Corporation and beyond. I was able to parallel this archive project with my own personal research, as we pulled endless amounts of archival artifacts out of old banker’s boxes.&nbsp; In 2020, I completed the first and only survey of Palm Desert’s historic architecture (now accessible via a public map), and have since dedicated myself to further explorings its architects and built environment. My current project on architect Rudolph Schindler began as an extension of this research.&nbsp;In 2024, I presented my research at Modernism Week in the lecture “Wasteland to Wonderland: Palm Desert Corporation and the Making of a ‘Modern’ Desert City.” Palm Desert, to me, is much more than the place I grew up. It is a case study in the ways in which California has continuously reimagined landscapes and our perceptions of them through architecture, land use, and branding.&nbsp; The film featured on my home page hails from HSPD’s collections and was recently digitized as part of these efforts.&nbsp; SMOKE TREE RANCH https://lukeleuschner.com/SMOKE-TREE-RANCH Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:52:07 +0000 Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com/SMOKE-TREE-RANCH Luke Leuschner &nbsp; &nbsp; Selected Projects &gt; &nbsp; SMOKE TREE RANCH <img width="1276" height="1182" width_o="1276" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce2c8c560a085c16f8bd13709d4160722d39efd49f63ae219030563c738204a8/Screen-Shot-2022-11-07-at-11.19.24-PM.png" data-mid="159048010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce2c8c560a085c16f8bd13709d4160722d39efd49f63ae219030563c738204a8/Screen-Shot-2022-11-07-at-11.19.24-PM.png" /> <img width="1931" height="2665" width_o="1931" height_o="2665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9298fa7557e0ef0a847bfb0f200c9e042d4ef0b72c36f9e03c781c7367bf6f56/DSun-11261937.jpg" data-mid="159048250" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9298fa7557e0ef0a847bfb0f200c9e042d4ef0b72c36f9e03c781c7367bf6f56/DSun-11261937.jpg" /> <img width="1572" height="1028" width_o="1572" height_o="1028" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f554d051d3852e53f309cd25c482d6f4aee01a8e1463fafda473c4cc915991fe/91zywlJb6uL.jpg" data-mid="159048509" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f554d051d3852e53f309cd25c482d6f4aee01a8e1463fafda473c4cc915991fe/91zywlJb6uL.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2359" width_o="3000" height_o="2359" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fd701f585400c5f8034066b56f9829e1074f2abb8bfa5a6c8e916bd3a3fefa2/p15150coll5_4934_full.jpg" data-mid="159048512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9fd701f585400c5f8034066b56f9829e1074f2abb8bfa5a6c8e916bd3a3fefa2/p15150coll5_4934_full.jpg" /> Photo credits (top to bottom, L to R): UC Santa Barbara Geospatial Collection; Desert Sun 26 November 1937; Collection of the author; Maynard Parker Collection, Huntington Library.&nbsp; Smoke Tree Ranch is a historic development in Palm Springs known for its famous residents, architecture, and complete integration with the natural desert. Since its founding in the 1920s, it has set forth a rigorous standard of desert-centric architecture and planning which it still retains. Albert Frey, John Porter Clark, E. Stewart Williams, and William Cody were among a number of modern architects who were presented with these standards and responded with distinctive Desert Modern homes. In 2021, I was commissioned by Smoke Tree Ranch to be in charge of processing, repairing, and digitizing their entire architecture archive&nbsp;— a project which has (successfully) preserved their architectural legacy for decades to come.&nbsp; LEUSCHNER https://lukeleuschner.com/LEUSCHNER Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:49:55 +0000 Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com/LEUSCHNER Luke Leuschner &nbsp; &nbsp; Selected Projects &gt; &nbsp; LEUSCHNER PROJECT <img width="1732" height="1198" width_o="1732" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a639bc6e72b9e26fc15189527b8101019b0f91fb0f5a0f037b791f5eed0ddce/Screen-Shot-2022-07-06-at-6.54.23-PM.jpeg" data-mid="159146026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a639bc6e72b9e26fc15189527b8101019b0f91fb0f5a0f037b791f5eed0ddce/Screen-Shot-2022-07-06-at-6.54.23-PM.jpeg" /> <img width="684" height="1041" width_o="684" height_o="1041" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ada2aad0ce2f2e1bf73517476ae54bd55517db171c44b55740282a2d3db219c1/Screen-Shot-2021-01-03-at-12.45.20-AM.png" data-mid="159146931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/684/i/ada2aad0ce2f2e1bf73517476ae54bd55517db171c44b55740282a2d3db219c1/Screen-Shot-2021-01-03-at-12.45.20-AM.png" /> <img width="1427" height="942" width_o="1427" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebe26e09a2a1c474109b667681407aba238b67dff413c7990241287d6d49a9a1/IMG_4256.jpeg" data-mid="159146877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebe26e09a2a1c474109b667681407aba238b67dff413c7990241287d6d49a9a1/IMG_4256.jpeg" /> <img width="1496" height="1002" width_o="1496" height_o="1002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7702a986b9fca75e0591c36bda7993362c5fbc4d226688df0e0907f962d42d2/Screen-Shot-2022-07-06-at-6.54.01-PM.jpeg" data-mid="159147349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7702a986b9fca75e0591c36bda7993362c5fbc4d226688df0e0907f962d42d2/Screen-Shot-2022-07-06-at-6.54.01-PM.jpeg" /> Photo credits (top to bottom, L to R): Leuschner Collection.&nbsp; Kodachrome and the everyday camera liberated the means of photography. And California provided a lot to photograph.&nbsp; Over the past few years, I have spent various free time digitizing the thousands of Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides that my grandparents left behind upon their passing. My family grew up in Los Angeles in the post-war era of aerospace, cloverleaf interchanges, and Eames chairs. My grandmother, who was rather relentless with the camera, photographed a lot of it.&nbsp; There is nothing particularly serious about this project, but I have always thought of it more as an examination of Mid-century California, its people, places, and things, and by extension, what it means to be a “Californian.” Is California all sunshine? Or is it a Billy Wilder noir script? I’m not exactly sure, but as work my way through a few thousand more slides, perhaps I’ll have a better answer.&nbsp; TRAVELEZE https://lukeleuschner.com/TRAVELEZE Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:09:05 +0000 Luke Leuschner https://lukeleuschner.com/TRAVELEZE Luke Leuschner &nbsp; &nbsp; Selected Projects &gt; 1964 TRAVELEZE <img width="3522" height="2368" width_o="3522" height_o="2368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f848da2bf19925837a285b8e2bf166145b5ec1676e7e323ef8c589e1bc7cdc96/IMG_1397.jpeg" data-mid="159149518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f848da2bf19925837a285b8e2bf166145b5ec1676e7e323ef8c589e1bc7cdc96/IMG_1397.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2749731c4fe060d61e6905b6530b84b60520c5da28ddeaa23e336ffa510ee7cd/IMG_7548.jpeg" data-mid="159149602" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2749731c4fe060d61e6905b6530b84b60520c5da28ddeaa23e336ffa510ee7cd/IMG_7548.jpeg" /> <img width="2239" height="2594" width_o="2239" height_o="2594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35a2aa2374eb1e8eb7b23f02e33a72794851e5b937b0a14f84c4673357c88e30/IMG_5462.jpeg" data-mid="159149539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35a2aa2374eb1e8eb7b23f02e33a72794851e5b937b0a14f84c4673357c88e30/IMG_5462.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/453e0493994402bc830b35aa4cbd73d9cc2c9171753445701da9217cdb02ef57/IMG_1513.jpeg" data-mid="159205267" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/453e0493994402bc830b35aa4cbd73d9cc2c9171753445701da9217cdb02ef57/IMG_1513.jpeg" /> There is that age-old saying that everyone wants what they cannot have. Growing up in the desert, I always wanted rain — at least until I started restoring a leaky trailer.&nbsp; Over the course of three years (and frankly, more needs to be done), I scraped and banged and sanded and restored a 1964 Traveleze travel trailer.&nbsp; This project doesn’t really say much about my research interests, but it was a lot of fun (and stress)!