Amateur Photographer Magazine

This Side of Paradise, Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs

Saturday 16th August 2008

By Jennifer A Watts and Claudia Bohn-Spector

Title:This Side of Paradise, Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs

Author: Jennifer A Watts and Claudia Bohn-Spector

ISBN: 978-1-8589-4434-0

Publisher: Merrell

Edition: Hardback

Don't worry, this is far from being a collection of stereotypical images of LA ‚ there's no cruise down Sunset Boulevard or visit to Venice Beach. Instead, this is a brilliant collection of photographs by both early and contemporary masters that will have you looking at the 'City of Angels' in a totally different and refreshing light.

Black & white entries include 'Mannequins' by Ansel Adams (1942) and ‚ 'Rubber Dummies', by Edward Weston (1939), while there are other unusual photographs such as Timothy Street-Porter's 1994 shot of, 'The Flintstones' movie set.

This book is no tourist brochure ‚ it has thrown away the tinsel and exposed the real town.

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