Los Angeles. Portrait of a City - Reviews (7)
| "Traum-Tour in Wort und Bild."— Tageblatt, Luxemburg, Luxembourg |
| „Mithilfe der Aufnahmen zahlloser Fotografen zeichnet das Buch Spuren der kulturellen, politischen, industriellen und soziologischen Geschichte nach und widmet sich den entscheidenden Entwicklungsphasen der Stadt, vom Immobilienboom der 1880er Jahre bis hin zur unkontrollierten Zersiedelung im späten 20. Jahrhundert. Über 500 Bilder zeigen den Aufstieg der Stadt dank künstlicher Bewässerung vom Brachland in der Wüste zum grünen Garten Eden.”— Stylus Magazin, Wuppertal, Germany |
| "Pour raconter l’histoire de cette cité mythique qu’est Los Angeles, il fallait un livre à la hauteur du sujet. Cet ouvrage XXL se met au diapason de la mégapole. Premier exploit qui donne la mesure de la légende: les auteurs ont retrouvé une photo d’une ferme perdue dans les montagnes, prise il y a à peine plus de 100 ans. C’est ici que se trouve aujourd’hui Hollywood... Au fil des pages, l’anecdote y côtoie la grande histoire à travers une impressionnante sélection de photos d’archives. Le meurtre de Rodney King, les Kennedy, Sinatra, les Beach Boys, O.J.Simpson... Tous ceux qui ont forgé l’histoire et la réputation sulfureuse et unique de la Cité des anges sont réunis dans cette somme passionnante."— Idéat, Paris, France |
| "This sold out all over the city last year."— Reviewer's Pick: Carolyn Kellogg Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, United States |
| "I want to spotlight a book that dovetails neatly with the current zeitgeist in the Los Angeles art world, a spirit of time and place that I believe is largely a result of the Getty's city-wide Pacific Standard Time initiative. TASCHEN's fabulous photography book, Los Angeles, Portrait of a City, fleshes out the cultural identity of the city, before and after the 1945-1980 focus of Pacific Standard Time, and is nothing less than a joy to own... So get comfortable in your favorite chair and give yourself at least two hours to take in the over 500 photographs that range from the first known photograph of Los Angeles, a largely pastoral scene taken in 1862, to a portrait of the founder of Forest Lawn surrounded by prints of big-eyed Jesuses, to recent landmarks such as Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Hall... You'll travel through time with highlights of the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history... You don't have to live in Los Angeles to appreciate this book and the huge cultural impact Los Angeles has had on the rest of the world."— Huffingtonpost.com, New York, United States |
| "The photographic TASCHEN book, Los Angeles, Portrait of a City is a marvelous work written by Harvard PhD. and USC Professor Kevin Starr and David L. Ulin, books editor for the L.A. Times. Edited by Jim Heimann, it incorporates some gorgeous history-laden photographs for the City of the Angels, the place my family and I call home. It is its own highlight and worth discussion."— It Rains...You Get Wet Blog, Los Angeles, United States |
| "Le mythe en images. Le toc californien est on ne peut plus d’actualité en librairie. Sur les devantures, on repère trois nouveautés croquignolettes. Los Angeles, Portrait d’une ville est la première enquête approfondie qui regroupe autant de témoignages photographiques sur l’histoire de la Cité des anges."— L’Essentiel, Bruxelles, Belgium |
| "Ce très bel ouvrage réunit le pire et le meilleur de la cite des Anges. Au travers de bons textes et d’images étonnantes, on retrouve les mythes fondateurs: de la starlette en tenue de soirée en train de grignoter un hot-dog au petit matin aux bunnies d’Hugh Hefner, de la guerre des gangs de l’Entre-deux-guerres aux films de genre des années 1980, de Santa Monica aux délires architecturaux des sixties. Pour les inconditionnels de la mégapole de la Côte ouest."— The Good Life, Paris, France |
| “In over 500 pages, Portrait of a City brings you images of some of the dreams upon which LA was built, from old photos of makeshift movie studios, to drive-ins and beaches, to celebrities like the young Jackson 5, and of course, to the ubiquitous backyard swimming pools. A challenging project for any city, but a portrait of such a diverse, confusing and ever-changing environment as Los Angeles is as nostalgically sweet as a dream that for many has not yet been realized but still holds a morsel of hope.”— Range Finder, Los Angeles, United States |
| "Sarà perchè la città è così fotogenica, immersa nella luce tutto l'anno, sarà per la sua storia culturale, politica, industriale, sociale. ... Una città che ha saputo far innamorare chi ci ha vissuto, ma che va capita. Esiste un bel libro, edito da TASCHEN, Los Angeles: Portrait of a City, che è letteralmente il ritratto che ci restituiscono fotografi come Julius Shulman, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton e molti altri superbi maestri dell'obiettivo le cui immagini sono state recuperate da archivi e musei mettendone assieme oltre 500."— Muse, Milano, Italy |
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“I’ve called Los Angeles home for more than four decades, and still I manage to discover more of it every time I open this TASCHEN book. It captures everything I love about my home – Muscle Beach, palm trees, the Hollywood hills – and even manages to show off some of the things I hate – the fantastic map of the old, extensive public transit system that was dismantled and discarded reminds me of just how shortsighted my starstruck home can be. Benedikt Taschen did the impossible. He took a city obsessed with the hottest, newest things and managed to create a lasting and beautiful memory.”
Illustration by Robert Nippoldt
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