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Presented by Sven Kirsten
A sneak peak into Sven Kirsten’s new tome to be published this fall. Together with Palm Springs modernism expert Pete Moruzzi Sven is currently penning the ultimate treasure trove of anecdotes and images depicting establishments that strived to recreate Polynesia in the desert. See how primitivism and modernism mingled under the desert sun!
Sven Kirsten was born in 1955 in Hamburg, Germany. After a brief stint at the San Francisco Art Institute, he moved to Los Angeles to study cinematography at the American Film Institute. Here he fell in love with the aesthetic extremes of LA. While working as a successful cinematographer, he began to pursue his hobby of urban archeology, photographing and collecting the remnants of the vanishing Tiki cult in America. He is the author of several books, including “The Book of Tiki”, “Tiki Pop”, and “The Art of Tiki”.