Los Angeles: Portrait of a city; Porträt einer Stadt; portrait d'une ville {abridged}
by Jim Heimann (Editor), David L. Ulin (Contributor)
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Rise and sprawl: A pictorial history of the City of Angels From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. L.A. is shown in its emergence from a desert wasteland to a vast palm-studded urban metropolis, beginning with the 1880s' real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood, the urban show more sprawl of the late 20th century, and right up to the present day. About the series: Each compact and dynamic volume in TASCHEN's Piccolo City series distills the vitality and history of each metropolis into a billet doux packed with 150 photos, informative captions and inspiring quotations. Text in English, French, and Spanish show lessTags
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This pocket-sized book contains a wonderful pictorial review of the development of the city of Los Angeles from its inception to modern times. There are some magnificent photos, including a wonderful one of the "Hollywoodland" sign with a view into the yet-to-be-developed San Fernando Valley, the development of Downtown and Santa Monica beach. Notations are in English, German and French.
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In addition to a career as a graphic designer and illustrator, Jim Heimann is a teacher and author. His graphic design works have been exhibited in several California galleries as well as at a number of shows in Germany and Japan. Heimann's design clients include CBS Records, Columbia Pictures, The Screen Actors Guild, and the National Football show more League. Heimann's written works include such books as California Crazy!, Hooray For Hollywood, Out With The Stars, Close Cover Before Striking, and Car Hops and Curb Service. He has also written on popular culture and regional history and architecture for many publications, among them the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone magazine. Heimann graduated from California State College in Long Beach with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He is a native of Los Angeles. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
David L. Ulin is the author or editor of eight previous books, including The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time and the Library of America's Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he is book critic, and former book editor, of the Los Angeles Times.
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- Canonical title
- Los Angeles: Portrait of a city; Porträt einer Stadt; portrait d'une ville {abridged}
- Original title
- Los Angeles. Portrait d'une ville {ABREGEE}; Los Angeles. Portrait of a city {ABREGEE}; Los Angeles. Porträt einer Stadt {ABREGEE}
- Original publication date
- 2009-11-05 (1e édition originale COMPLETE germano-franco-anglaise ∙ Portrait d'une ville ∙ Taschen) (1e édition originale COMPLETE germano-franco-anglaise ∙ Portrait d'une ville ∙ Taschen); 2013-09-12 (Nouvelle édition ABREGEE germano-franco-anglaise, Portrait d'une ville, Taschen) (Nouvelle édition ABREGEE germano-franco-anglaise, Portrait d'une ville, Taschen)
- Important places*
- Los Angeles, Californie, Etats-Unis
- Publisher's editor*
- Taschen, Benedikt
- Original language*
- Allemand; Anglais; Français
- Disambiguation notice
- This LT Work is the 190-page abridged edition of Jim Heimann's Los Angeles: Portrait of a city; Porträt einer Stadt; portrait d'une ville (2013). Please distinguish it from Heimann's 571-page complete edition (2009)... (show all), having the same Title but including essays by Kevin Starr and other material. Thank you.
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- Nonfiction, History, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 979.494 — History & geography History of North America Great Basin and Pacific Slope region of United States California Southern Counties City of Los Angeles
- LCC
- F869 .L843 .H45 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history California
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