Bruce Davidson: Los Angeles 1964 Contributor(s): Davidson, Bruce (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 3869307897 ISBN-13: 9783869307893 Publisher: Steidl OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
Dewey: 779 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 11.7" W x 11.6" (1.50 lbs) 56 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Bruce Davidson describes the genesis of this project thus: "Esquire's editors sent me to Los Angeles, and when I landed at LA International Airport I noticed giant palm trees growing in the parking lot. I ordered a hamburger through a microphone speaker in a drive-in called Tiny Naylor's. The freeways were blank and brilliant, chromium-plated bumpers reflected the Pacific Ocean, but the air quality was said to be bad. People looking like mannequins seemed at peace on the Sunset Strip while others were euphoric as they watered the desert. I stood there ready with my Leica, aware of my shadow on the pavement. I walked up to strangers, framed, focused and in a split second of alienations and cynicism, pressed the shutter button. Suddenly I had an awakening that led me to another level of visual understanding. But in the end, for some unknown reasons, the editors rejected the pictures, and I had to return home with a big box of prints, put them in a drawer, and forgot all about the trip." |