Picturing Los Angeles

Author : Jon Wilkman
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423623434
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing Los Angeles written by Jon Wilkman and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the exuberant, turbulent history of Los Angeles 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. Jon and Nancy Wilkman are Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmakers and writers. Long-time Angelenos, Jon and Nancy share a passion for their city's rich and underappreciated past as well as L.A.'s vibrant and multicultural present.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jurisdictional Disputes in the Motion-picture Industry: Hearings held at Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 11-14, 18-20, 22, 25-30, Sept. 2, 3, 1947 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen J. Hornsby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022638604X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing America written by Stephen J. Hornsby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows maps of the United States of America and other geographical areas of the world.

Author : Rosemary Lord
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911641050
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Then and Now Mini Hardback written by Rosemary Lord and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect, souvenir-size Then and Now featuring all the best-known tourist locations from Los Angeles, with a number of vintage color photos. Using archive photos paired with their modern equivalent, Los Angeles Then and Now charts the development of the city from the days of orange groves and melon patches and isolated Spanish mission buildings to the staggering metropolis it is today. With a background in the movie business, Rosemary Lord interlaces the arrival of the Hollywood era and the growth of the city she has lived in for twenty-five years. Since its original publication in 2002, Los Angeles Then and Now has been rephotographed, revised with new content, and completely redesigned. This new compact gift edition includes exclusive matchups. Sites include Old Plaza Church, Olvera Street, Chinatown, Union Station, Mayan Theatre, Angel's Flight, Los Angeles Public Library, Biltmore Hotel, Bullocks Wilshire, Hollywood Sign, Griffith Observatory, Sunset and Vine, Egyptian Theatre, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Roosevelt Hotel, Schwab's Pharmacy, Beverly Hills Hotel, Venice Beach, and Santa Monica Pier.

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982382
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Barrio written by David William Foster and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of ten distinctive artists who offer a range of approaches to portraying Chicano life. The production of each artist is examined as an ideological interpretation of how Chicano experience is constructed and interpreted through the medium of photography, in sites ranging from the traditional barrio to large metropolitan societies. These photographers present artistic as well as documentary images of the socially invisible. They and their subjects grapple with definitions of identity, as well as ethnicity and gender. As such, this study deepens our understanding of the many interpretations of the "Chicano experience."

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing Childhood written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essay on the history of illustration in books for children shows many examples from early editions of Aesop's Fables, alphabet books, pop-up books, and paper dolls.

Author : Alexandra Schwartz
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles written by Alexandra Schwartz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schwartz examines Ruscha's diverse body of work, including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, books, and films, and discusses his relationship with other artists with whom he sparked the movement known as West Coast pop.

Author : Liza Black
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149623264X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing Indians written by Liza Black and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post–World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of “Indianness.”

Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062099507
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Pictures written by Ransom Riggs and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the candid quirkiness of Awkward Family Photos and the confessional intimacy of PostSecret, Ransom Riggs's Talking Pictures is a haunting collection of antique found photographs—with evocative inscriptions that bring these lost personal moments to life—from the author of the New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Each image in Talking Pictures reveals a singular, frozen moment in a person’s life, be it joyful, quiet, or steeped in sorrow. Yet the book’s unique depth comes from the writing accompanying each photo: as with the caption revealing how one seemingly random snapshot of a dancing couple captured the first dance of their 40-year marriage, each successive inscription shines like a flashbulb illuminating a photograph’s particular context and lighting up our connection to the past.

Author : Jon Wilkman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635571057
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Reality written by Jon Wilkman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A towering achievement, and a volume I know I'll be consulting on a regular basis.”-Leonard Maltin "Authoritative, accessible, and elegantly written, Screening Reality is the history of American documentary film we have been waiting for." --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times film critic From Edison to IMAX, Ken Burns to virtual environments, the first comprehensive history of American documentary film and the remarkable men and women who changed the way we view the world. Amidst claims of a new “post-truth” era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more documentaries are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. For most of our history, Americans have depended on motion pictures to bring the realities of the world into view. And yet the richly complex, ever-evolving relationship between nonfiction movies and American history is virtually unexplored. Screening Reality is a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed during more than one hundred years of dramatic change, through World Wars I and II, the dawn of mass media, the social and political turmoil of the sixties and seventies, and the communications revolution that led to a twenty-first century of empowered yet divided Americans. In the telling, professional filmmaker Jon Wilkman draws on his own experience, as well as the stories of inventors, adventurers, journalists, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists who framed and filtered the world to inform, persuade, awe, and entertain. Interweaving American and motion picture history, and an inquiry into the nature of truth on screen, Screening Reality is essential and fascinating reading for anyone looking to expand an understanding of the American experience and today's truth-challenged times.