How a failed S&M magazine led Steve Kahn to create a charged photo series about a Hollywood building
(LA Times Clippers)

It was an art project that had roots in a failed S&M venture. For the late photographer Steve Kahn, `The Hollywood Suites,` a series of images that chronicled, in conceptual ways, the interiors of a dilapidated no-tell hotel on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, all started with a bondage magazine. It...