“If anything is more synonymous with Palm Springs than palm trees, it’s celebrity culture. Streets and buildings are named after famous musicians and actors who frequented our desert in the ’50s and ’60s, and the Coachella Valley continues to attract stars today.
An upcoming photo exhibition in Rancho Mirage is all about this celebrity culture. Hollywood Cool, opening at MAD.KAT Gallery on Saturday, Feb. 17, features the photography of John R. Hamilton. Hamilton’s work focuses on “a love of celebrity and the freedom of the American West” via photos of countless celebrities shot from the ’40s through the ’90s…”
