Download or read book Photos of California la Area written by Kristine Pisano-Penton and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a photobook with approximately 50 pages of my trip to Los Angeles, California. It has pictures of beaches, mountains and people. This is my second edition I hope to publish a million more photobooks for the world to enjoy. My website is www.creativetampabay.zenfolio.com

Download or read book Shades of L A written by Carolyn Kozo Cole and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shades of L.A., a collection of more than one hundred photographs selected from the family albums of eight different communities, makes available, for the first time, rare images of family life in Southern California. Taken not by outsiders reporting to the world, but by families recording their own history, these photographs are important cultural documents of the twentieth century. Together with a timeline of L.A.'s ethnic history, they give a compelling portrait of life in one of America's most diverse cities from the 1880s to the 1960s.

Download or read book Historic Photos of Los Angeles written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two letters of the alphabet are all that are needed to say the name of America’s second-largest city: L.A. Historic Photos of Los Angeles captures the historical essence of this rapidly moving, fast-growing, ever-changing Pacific Coast city. Perhaps only New York can rank with Los Angeles in numbers of historical American architectural landmarks. From historic Union Station to Disneyland and the Hollywood sign, and from Griffith Auditorium to the Los Angeles Coliseum, readers of Historic Photos of Los Angeles will delight in watching the city grow before their eyes. With nearly 200 photographs gathered from the area’s top archives, this book tells the story of the meteoric growth and development of this landmark international destination. Historic Photos of Los Angeles is a must-have for history lovers and anyone who loves L.A.

Download or read book A Place in the Sun written by John Kenneth Humble and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer John Humble has lived in Los Angeles for thirty years. In that time he has created a strong body of work that captures the unique architecture and natural environment of Southern California. A Place in the Sun is a celebration of Humble's distinctive view of Los Angeles, from the concrete channels of the Los Angeles River to the instantly recognizable cityscape through which that river winds.

Download or read book Sources for Photographs in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Los Angeles written by Amelia Boman and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Los Angeles in California, USA The photos captures the quintessential stunning landmarks, scenery and architectural buildings of the country and city from day to night without no words (texts) This full page picture book will make a great home coffee table decor accessory or as a gift for a loved one 8.5" x 11" / large size Glossy softcover

Download or read book Historic Photos of Los Angeles written by Dana Lombardy and published by Historic Photos. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two letters of the alphabet are all that are needed to say the name of America's second-largest city: L.A. Historic Photos of Los Angeles captures the historical essence of this rapidly moving, fast-growing, ever-changing Pacific Coast city. Perhaps only New York can rank with Los Angeles in numbers of historical American architectural landmarks. From historic Union Station to Disneyland and the Hollywood sign, and from Griffith Auditorium to the Los Angeles Coliseum, readers of Historic Photos of Los Angeles will delight in watching the city grow before their eyes. With nearly 200 photographs gathered from the area's top archives, this book tells the story of the meteoric growth and development of this landmark international destination. Historic Photos of Los Angeles is a must-have for history lovers and anyone who loves L.A.

Download or read book Where Are the Angels in Los Angeles Urban Architectural Photography written by Grace Divine and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is comprised of photographic art and motivational psychically Inspired messages by psychic medium and artist Grace Divine "THE PSYCHIC ARTIST." The author states, "I created this book inspired by a question: Where are the angels in Los Angeles? A metaphor, an analogy, a simile, star struck people from all around the world come to Los Angeles to look for stars. But to be taken literally, where are they really, the angels? This book, being the artistic medium, proposes to arouse a sense of curiosity and perplexity in your mind. Ask yourself, what do you feel and what do you think when you see these photo paintings? Through this book, you will learn to see like a psychic artist as it shows you how to see what you hadn't seen before, more than just shadows of buildings reflected on the walls, maybe you, can find the angels in Los Angeles.One day, while traveling through Los Angeles, I took thousands of photos of the buildings from my moving vehicle. Differentiating between positive and negative spaces, I focused on the shadows as they are reflected from one building to another and on the spaces around them. In addition, I was haunted by the name of the city, "Los Angeles." I pondered at the irony of that name and its meaning. The rich history of Los Angeles as a city that caters to the entertainment industry is filled with stars and celebrities. But these stars stand on the shoulders of the many countless people who contribute to the production of television and film. In these photographs, I use the shadows on the buildings as a metaphor for this reality.My name is Grace Divine. I am a photographer, painter, artist, writer, attorney and psychic. I am "THE PSYCHIC ARTIST" and founder of The PSYCHIC ART MOVEMENT. This book is part of a series of books dedicated to THE PSYCHIC ART MOVEMENT. To learn more, please visit gracedivine.com.

Download or read book Los Angeles on Instagram written by Dan Kurtzman and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absolute best of the L.A. Instagram experience in a collection of more than 300 photos from over fifty influential Instagram photographers. Capturing the vibrant, creative energy that permeates Los Angeles, fifty of the L.A. area's most talented Instagram photographers bring one of the world's most dynamic cities to life. Following the success of New York City on Instagram and San Francisco on Instagram, Los Angeles on Instagram is a glamorous and gritty portrait that highlights fresh perspectives of iconic cityscapes, little-known urban oases, and the knockout beauty of the Pacific Coast. It is a celebration of the SoCal experience via the lens of an incredible community of photographers. For anyone with a love of Los Angeles and Instagram, this book will inspire, entertain, and illuminate.

Download or read book Los Angeles River written by Ted Elrick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the Los Angeles River was unpredictable--prone to flooding, a raging torrent during rare Southern California rains, and just a trickle and marshlands the rest of the year. To tame it, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers walled in the river after the disastrous 1938 flood. Decades later, roadside signs that proclaimed "Los Angeles River" prodded the question: How can this cement drain, strewn with trash and abandoned refrigerators, be considered a river? Abused through the 20th century, the L.A. River is in the midst of a comeback, thanks to the Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR) and local governments. The realization that this arroyo has been as crucial to the development and growth of the city as the climate is again alive in the community. The vintage photographs for this historic and redemptive look at one of the great natural features of Los Angeles County were collected from private and public archives.--From publisher description.

Download or read book El Pueblo written by Jean Bruce Poole and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1781 by pioneers from what is today northern Mexico, El Pueblo de Los Angeles mirrors the history and heritage of the city to which it gave birth. When the pueblo was the capital of Mexico’s Alta California, the region’s rancheros came here to celebrate mass or to attend fiestas in the historic Plaza. Following California’s statehood in 1850, the pueblo for a time ranked among the most lawless towns of the American West. American speculators, wealthy rancheros, and Italian wine merchants crowded its dusty streets. The town’s first barrio and the vibrant precincts of Old Chinatown soon grew up nearby. As Los Angeles burgeoned into a modern metropolis, its historic heart fell into ruin, to be revitalized by the creation in 1930 of the romantic Mexican marketplace at Olvera Street. Here, two years later, David Alfaro Siqueiros painted the landmark mural América Tropical, whose story is a fascinating tale of art, politics, and censorship. In the decades since, the pueblo has remained one of Southern California’s most enduring and most complex cultural symbols. El Pueblo vividly recounts the story of the birthplace of Los Angeles. An engaging historical narrative is complemented by abundant illustrations and a tour of the pueblo’s historic buildings. The book also describes initiatives to preserve the pueblo’s rich heritage and considers the significance of its multicultural legacy for Los Angeles today

Download or read book Landmark Photo Los Angeles California USA written by Julien Coallier and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include various images of regional scenes popular for tourists, or representative of the Los Angeles area.

Download or read book East of West LA written by Kevin McCollister and published by If Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonfiction. Photography. California Studies. "I'm Photographing LA--All of it" is Kevin McCollister's self-proclaimed lifetime project. Determined to walk the city, perhaps one of the most determinedly unwalkable cities in the world, seeing to make a record of its mostly unseen face with an unstaged straightforwardness that disarms the popular mythologies of the place, McCollister finds a new city, the city that is Los Angeles, all of it, one image at a time. "Long after the bars have emptied, the taco trucks have shut down, and the citizenry are safe in their beds, Kevin McCollister prowls the streets of LA, brooding, silent, relentless, with his Canon 40 at his side, waiting for the cityscape to whisper, 'Take my picture'"--Lewis MacAdams.

Download or read book Los Angeles written by Anton Wagner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Anton Wagner’s groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English. No book on the emergence of Los Angeles, today a metropolis of more than four million people, has been more influential or elusive than this volume by Anton Wagner. Originally published in German in 1935 as Los Angeles: Werden, Leben und Gestalt der Zweimillionenstadt in Südkalifornien, it is one of the earliest geographical investigations of a city understood as a series of layered landscapes. Wagner demonstrated that despite its geographical disadvantages, Los Angeles grew rapidly into a dominant urban region, bolstered by agriculture, real estate development, transportation infrastructure, tourism, the oil and automobile industries, and the film business. Although widely reviewed upon its initial publication, his book was largely forgotten until reintroduced by architectural historian Reyner Banham in his 1971 classic Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. This definitive translation is annotated by Edward Dimendberg and preceded by his substantial introduction, which traces Wagner's biography and intellectual formation in 1930s Germany and contextualizes his work among that of other geographers. It is an essential work for students, scholars, and curious readers interested in urban geography and the rise of Los Angeles as a global metropolis. “This fine new translation by Timothy Grundy of Anton Wagner's Los Angeles with Edward Dimendberg's lucidly probing introduction constitutes a major contribution to urban history and our understanding of one of the world's most enigmatic and significant cities.” —Thomas S. Hines, Research Professor of History and Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA “Edward Dimendberg has done a remarkable job bringing Anton Wagner's classic study of Los Angeles to a wider readership. This landmark publication will enable many strands of urban scholarship to enter into dialogue for the first time.” —Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge, and author of Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (2022) “Anton Wagner was a prescient and troubling historical figure. Nearly a century ago, with his camera in hand, he walked Los Angeles in fervent exploration of metropolitan growth. This beautiful and expert book takes Wagner every bit as seriously as he took Los Angeles.” —William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West "Anton Wagner’s geographic and ethnographic history of the urbanization of Los Angeles has long been unavailable to English-speaking readers. This early study, accompanied by Edward Dimendberg’s comprehensive introduction, will be of interest to all who, like Reyner Banham, admire its impressive scholarship and firsthand account of a city and ecology already in the throes of dynamic transformation." —Joan Ockman, Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History, Yale School of Architecture "Encompassing copious photographs, insightful commentary, and thorough reconstruction of Wagner’s life and times, this new translation of Anton Wagner’s Los Angeles provides the missing link in scholarship about the metropolis during the early twentieth century. Its continuing relevance and controversial edge will appeal to urban researchers and college students beyond Southern California." —Michael Dear, Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley "Scholars of Los Angeles, or any city, must rejoice at this first proper English-language publication of Wagner's brilliant, if problematic, urban studies masterpiece. The edition is made accessible and relevant by Edward Dimendberg's indispensable prefatory material and contextualization." —Roger Keil, Professor of Environmental and Urban Change, York University “Finally translating this fascinating book into English fills an important gap in our historical knowledge of Los Angeles and its interpretation. Edward Dimendberg's invaluable introduction situates Anton Wagner in a comprehensive intellectual context. Of more than merely historical interest, this in-depth picture of Los Angeles in 1933 is essential reading for anyone interested in cities.” —Margaret Crawford, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley “This key text from 1935 for understanding Los Angeles urbanism is finally available in an excellent English translation by Timothy Grundy. Revelatory introductory essays by Anthony Vidler and Edward Dimendberg explain how German geographer (and later Nazi Party member) Anton Wagner was able to map and conceptualize the radical originality of this archetypal American metropolis in ways that deeply influenced Reyner Banham and so many subsequent writers on the city.” —Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan "Expertly annotated by Edward Dimendberg, Anton Wagner’s book on the growth of Los Angeles, which first appeared in German in 1935, is a landmark study in the history of urbanization. At the same time, it can be read as an example of transnational and comparative history, in which an observer from one country commented on developments in another. This volume will interest historians of the modern city, both in America and in Germany." —Andrew Lees, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Rutgers University “Blending his wide knowledge and his acute wit, Edward Dimendberg has meticulously reconstructed the genesis of a forgotten doctoral thesis, which had remained unread for more than eighty years, despite its acknowledgement by Reyner Banham. This pioneering scholarly study of the Southern Californian metropolis is now available for the first time in English, inscribed with subtlety in both its German and its American contexts on the basis of thorough investigations.” —Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University "This is the odyssey of a book written and published in 1930s Nazi Germany, forgotten after the war, and rediscovered by Reyner Banham in the ‘70s. Los Angeles is a seminal text of modern architectural history and confronts readers in the present with the paradox of an unknown classic.“ —Wolfgang Schivelbusch, author of The Railway Journey “Finally, a translation of Anton Wagner’s Los Angeles, with extensive notes and a superb and deeply researched introduction by Edward Dimendberg, has arrived. It turns out that it was worth the wait. This volume is not only an important historic document, but a still-unrivaled portrait of a great city.” —Robert Bruegmann, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, Architecture, and Urban Planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History "Scholars of Los Angeles can rejoice that Anton Wagner’s legendary study of early 1930s Los Angeles is at last available in a masterful translation, with a luminous introduction by Edward Dimendberg that captures Wagner’s analytical brilliance as well as his troubling politics and racial views. An essential addition to any library of Southern California." —Louis S. Warren, W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History, University of California, Davis “Anton Wagner’s study provides an invaluable and frequently perceptive window into the evolution of Los Angeles during the early twentieth century, showing how human agency transformed regional resources into a booming major city. The translation is immensely enhanced by Edward Dimendberg’s skillful provision of context, including fascinating intellectual history.” —Stephen Bell, Professor of Geography and History, UCLA "Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California has always had an elusive presence in the conversation about the explosive growth of the Southern California metropolis at the beginning of the twentieth century: an arcane text known to exist, but only accessible to very few. This expert first translation in English almost ninety years after it originally appeared in German is prefaced by a complex and engaging introduction by Edward Dimendberg that situates the original study in a multidisciplinary conversation. It elucidates the many ways this landmark essay on Los Angeles’s urban geography was not only filtered into subsequent scholarship on the city—Reyner Banham’s iconic Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies in particular—but also how it resonates with contemporary debates about cities as complex social organisms. This book will be essential reading not only for historians of Los Angeles but for those interested in the theorization of the modern metropolis more broadly. That the volume editor addresses Wagner’s problematic views on race and territorial conquest front and center, within their historic context, only adds to the significance of this undertaking." —Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Download or read book Los Angeles from the Days of the Pueblo written by William Wilcox Robinson and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1981 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book LAX written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAX: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LOS ANGELES 1980-84 is comprised of two series of black-and-white images of a metropolis that has now vanished. In the first series, LAX (62 photos, 35mm black-and-white film), photographer John Brian King engaged in street-style photography in one of the city's most charged places: Los Angeles International Airport. Harried travelers, uniformed employees, and vacationers appear angered by the flash of King's camera, too bored to care, or all-too-confident in this post-industrial setting. King's series would be impossible today, as it exposes the uncomfortable chaos of airport existence before an era of obligatory surveillance. In the second series, LA (55 photos, 6x7cm black-and-white film), King photographed a city at night devoid of people. The photographs have an evidentiary quality: bizarre debris are framed in the center, isolated by a high-intensity flash. King captured these artifacts--from Sunset Strip nightclub posters to archaic ATMs to beautiful Hollywood Art Deco statues--with a blunt, direct aesthetic. The black-and-white film negatives of LAX remained in a box for thirty years; they have now reemerged as the unsettling traces of 1980s Los Angeles. Featured in the Los Angeles Times, Loeil de la Photographie, Slate, Impose Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. The photos offer a wondrous time capsule of the airport and Los Angeles. (The second part of the book includes work beyond the confines of LAX.) King captured cowboys and dandies, kids and posers, old ladies and airport workers, frazzled-looking couples purportedly on vacation--all in the glare of his flash and wide angle lens.--Los Angeles Times The book, LAX: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LOS ANGELES 1980-84, celebrates [King's] flash and run perspective as he creates the perfect descriptor of Los Angeles on the fringes, away from the klieg lights and red carpets, when life was about drinking and driving and celebrating the absurdity of a city that looks better after the sun goes down.--Lenscratch The fact that the resulting black and white photographs sat untouched in a box for over 30 years only adds to their otherworldly appeal...Newly uncovered, these shots form a porthole into a long-gone era; the LA of old school Hollywood glamour is invisible here, concealed by the clamour of every day life. And this, King serves to prove, can be even more interesting than the former.--AnOther Magazine Even in the days before the stringent anti-terror security measures, airports were a pretty fraught experience. Back in the early '80s, brash young photographer John Brian King threw himself into the potential powder keg that was Los Angeles International Airport with flash blazing--deliberately intrusive and often unwelcome--to see what might combust. Aside from the human drama, King was also drawn to the fabric of the building itself, and the detritus and damage left behind by the transit of so many people.--We Heart The parallelism between LAX and LA brings the viewer to two different states of the city, that at the same time is made by the same people who come and go, who are living their everyday life, far from the imaginary we are used to when we think about Los Angeles. Here this everyday life is the main character of a vanished era.--Yet Magazine Art. Photography. California Interest.

Download or read book Only in Los Angeles written by and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 140 color photos "Only in Los Angeles" celebrates one of the most diverse and lively metro areas in the world. This full-color celebration showcases the many neighborhoods, people, and cultures that define the City of Angels. Coverage includes downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Beverly Hills; Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Tokyo; beach communities from Malibu to the OC, including Santa Monica and Venice; and the many wilderness areas around this sprawling metropolis, such as the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains and Catalina Island.