Los Angeles 200

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Here is a true Los Angeles publishing landmark. Two centuries of history and 200 striking color photographs of contemporary Los Angeles are linked together in a spectacular volume celebrating the city's bicentennial. In this handsome and highly originál treatment, each photograph is accompanied by a crisp commentary describing a key historic event in the city's development for every year since 1781. A bird's-eye view precedes the text-a four-page pull-out presenting a chart of the years from 1781 to 1980, with the key happening for each year given in a capsule sentence and with 34 black-and-white historic engravings and photographs. Art Seidenbaum, book editor of the Los Angeles Times, has explored the City of the Angels and its personalities. He has hunted out anecdotes and unusual happenings, land booms, oil booms, movie booms, and the sonic boom of the aerospace industry, and presents them to us in short, vivid takes. John Maimin, a Times photographer for 30 years, took on the... Tovább

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Here is a true Los Angeles publishing landmark. Two centuries of history and 200 striking color photographs of contemporary Los Angeles are linked together in a spectacular volume celebrating the city's bicentennial. In this handsome and highly originál treatment, each photograph is accompanied by a crisp commentary describing a key historic event in the city's development for every year since 1781. A bird's-eye view precedes the text-a four-page pull-out presenting a chart of the years from 1781 to 1980, with the key happening for each year given in a capsule sentence and with 34 black-and-white historic engravings and photographs. Art Seidenbaum, book editor of the Los Angeles Times, has explored the City of the Angels and its personalities. He has hunted out anecdotes and unusual happenings, land booms, oil booms, movie booms, and the sonic boom of the aerospace industry, and presents them to us in short, vivid takes. John Maimin, a Times photographer for 30 years, took on the three-year assignment of illustrating this book as the capstone of his career. In pictures of great beauty and warm humán interest, he portrays the city's past through its present. The illustrious histórián Will Durant sets the stage with his foreword, in which he telis how a visit to Los Angeles 28 years ago blossomed into a lifelong love affair with the city named after Our Lady the Queen of the Angels. Readers of LOS ANGELES 200 will take part in that love affair and treasure the book as they do the city. 23U illustrations, including 200 plates in full color Vissza