EVE'S HOLLYWOOD BLACK ARTISTS often given or received during

often given or received during the Sakura or Cherry Blossom season

the home of millionaires and beggars

a part–time painter of surfboards

to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a roller-skating hooker

Highly visual and packed with photographs of Butler’s ephemera

EVE'S HOLLYWOOD BLACK ARTISTS often given or received duringJournalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time shed hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruschas Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitzs first book showed her to be a razor sharp writer with tales of her own. Eves Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern Californias haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high school ingenues and enviably tattooed