Los Angeles. Portrait of a City
70Portrait of a City
Scopri la Città degli Angeli dalle spiagge ai barrios, da piccola città di frontiera a scintillante metropoli urbana e capitale mondiale del divertimento. Questo illuminante tributo a Los Angeles è ricco di fotografie straordinarie, che raccontano la vita e le reinvenzioni di Los Angeles dagli anni Ottanta dell'Ottocento ai giorni nostri.
“Los Angeles...così non ce l’aspettavamo ma è così che la raccontano – fino al 2000 – gli scatti di grandi fotografi, sviscerandone i ‘dietro le quinte’ tra stili di vita, costumi, mode. Ritratti nostalgici e persino buffi, da ritrovare o scoprire in un viaggio divertente.”
“Questo bel libro edito da TASCHEN ci restituisce superbi maestri dell’obiettivo le cui immagini sono state recuperate da archivi e musei, mettendone assieme oltre 500.”
“Un libro firmato da grandi nomi della fotografia ripercorre più di un secolo di storia di Los Angeles.”
“Lo splendido saggio fotografico rivela attraverso una stupefacente collezione di foto storiche come questo archetipo (sub)urbano abbia appena 150 anni, come a metà dell’Ottocento, cioè, al posto delle megalopoli ci fossero vergini colline di macchia mediterranea e poco più.”
Los Angeles. Portrait of a City
70Events that made world news—including two Olympics, Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, and the Rodney King riots—reveal a city of many dimensions. The entertainment capital of the world, Hollywood, and its celebrities are showcased along with many other notable residents, personalities, architects, artists, and musicians. The city’s pop cultural movements, its music, surfing, health food fads, gangs, and hot rods are included, as are its notorious crimes and criminals. This book depicts Los Angeles in all its glory and grit, via hundreds of freshly discovered images including those of Julius Shulman, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton and many other superb photographers, culled from major historical archives, museums, private collectors, and universities. These are given context and resonance through essays by renowned California historian Kevin Starr and Los Angeles literature expert David L. Ulin.
L'editore
Jim Heimann is the Executive Editor for TASCHEN. A cultural anthropologist, historian, and an avid collector, he has authored numerous titles on architecture, pop culture, and the history of Los Angeles and Hollywood, including TASCHEN’s Surfing, Los Angeles. Portrait of a City, California Crazy, and the All-American Ads series.
Gli autori che hanno contribuito
David L. Ulin is the books editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of "The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith," and the editor of "Another City: Writing from Los Angeles" and "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology." He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review.
Kevin Starr earned his PhD from Harvard University and was Professor of History at the University of Southern California. His many articles and books won him a Guggenheim Fellowship, Gold and Silver Medals of the Commonwealth Club, the Centennial Medal from Harvard, and the Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Los Angeles. Portrait of a City
Copertina rigida, 25 x 34 cm, 4.22 kg, 572 pagineISBN 978-3-8365-0291-7
Edizione: Multilingue (Francese, Inglese, Tedesco)5