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Picturing Los Angeles illustrates the creation, evolution, and ever-changing face of Los Angeles. Through stunning photography, the city's intriguing, important, and unexpectedly influential past is revealed. These images function like frames from a movie, offering glimpses of an ever-evolving metropolis. Drawing upon more than two hundred years of images and human experience, the authors have gathered a telling array of newspaper photos, historical snapshots of the movie industry, and photos that offer a glimpse into the sports, politics, industry, social change, crime, disasters, arts, and everyday life of each decade.Chapters are organized by The First 130 YearsStrangers in 1900-1910Dynamite, Waterworks, and Picture 1910-1920The Great American 1920-1930Brother, Can You Spare a Dream?: 1930-1940From Battlefields to 1940-1950Sprawling toward 1950-1960Homesteading on the New 1960-1970Whose Future Is It?: 1970-1980The World Comes to 1980-1990Remembering the 1990 and Beyond
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Picturing Los Angeles, Jon Wilkman, Nancy Wilkman
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
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- Titel
- Picturing Los Angeles
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Jon Wilkman, Nancy Wilkman
- Verlag
- Gibbs Smith
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 336
- ISBN10
- 1586857339
- ISBN13
- 9781586857332
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Kunst & Kultur, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Fotografie, Kalifornien
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Picturing Los Angeles illustrates the creation, evolution, and ever-changing face of Los Angeles. Through stunning photography, the city's intriguing, important, and unexpectedly influential past is revealed. These images function like frames from a movie, offering glimpses of an ever-evolving metropolis. Drawing upon more than two hundred years of images and human experience, the authors have gathered a telling array of newspaper photos, historical snapshots of the movie industry, and photos that offer a glimpse into the sports, politics, industry, social change, crime, disasters, arts, and everyday life of each decade.Chapters are organized by The First 130 YearsStrangers in 1900-1910Dynamite, Waterworks, and Picture 1910-1920The Great American 1920-1930Brother, Can You Spare a Dream?: 1930-1940From Battlefields to 1940-1950Sprawling toward 1950-1960Homesteading on the New 1960-1970Whose Future Is It?: 1970-1980The World Comes to 1980-1990Remembering the 1990 and Beyond