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Raw Portraits of Residents in a Hollywood Hotel, in 1975 

Penny Wolin spent three weeks in a down-at-the-heels hotel in 1975 Hollywood. Her photographs allow us access to a world both fascinating yet fleeting.

It’s cleverly fitting that Penny Wolin’s intriguing book, Guest Register, is covered in shagreen, a centuries-old sharkskin-like rawhide whose pebbly texture provides a smooth but durable surface first found in the tombs of the pharaohs in ancient E...

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