The City Unseen Hat & Beard and Wienholt Projects, in partnership with Leica Gallery Los Angeles, present the book launch and solo exhibition of The City Unseen, a new photography book by Emmy Award–winning television and film director and producer Daniel Sackheim.

The book launch event featured a solo exhibition of photographic works by Sackheim, a book signing, and a conversation between the artist and author and film historian Foster Hirsch, who wrote an original essay for the book reflecting on Sackheim’s work and its resonance within the broader history of film noir.

Unfolding across Los Angeles, Sackheim’s work in The City Unseen revitalizes the enigmatic nature of one of the most immortalized urban landscapes in cinema, and the birthplace of film noir. Sackheim’s signature approach to street photography through light and shadow not only creates a cinematic sensibility informed by his background as a television and film director, but also dramatizes everyday patterns and behavior with mysterious intent. Much like film noir’s distinct visual style and obsession with moral ambiguity, Sackheim turns what could have been familiar scenes into inexplicable encounters with the unknown.

In The City Unseen, Sackheim ultimately reveals a latent aura of disquiet and anonymity that still inhabits the hidden corners and overlooked atmospheres of our contemporary lives and the cities we live in.