Cameron,ABOVE LOS ANGELES.AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS,1976[fotografie aeree

Robert Cameron,
ABOVE LOS ANGELES.
A COLLECTION OF NOSTALGIC AND CONTEMPORARY
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES,
Cameron & Company, San Francisco (California) 1976,
prima edizione,
cartoncino rigido e tela, sovraccoperta illustrata,
29x36 cm., pp. 159,
testo in inglese,
numerosissime illustrazioni fotografiche in nero e a colori,
peso: kg.1,6

cod.0048

CONDIZIONI DEL LIBRO: ottime,
strappetto alla sovraccoperta




INDICE DELLE TAVOLE

INTRODUCTION 6
SHORELINE 8
THEN and NOW 38
DOWNTOWN 78
ENVIRONS 90
SPOR TS and ENTER TAINMENT 120
HIGH ABOVE 148


DALLE NOTE DI COPERTINA

ABOVE
LOS ANGELES
Collection of
Nostalgic and Contemporary
Arial Photographs
of Greater Los Angeles
" What you have in your hands
is a remarkable perspective on one of
the world's most ill-defined and
surprisingly beautiful regions, a ticket to
ride above Los Angeles by helicopter
and NASA U-2 and Goodyear blimp
to see Southern California in all its
sprawling wonder, in all that glorious
stretch of natural and human
imagination from ocean to stark desert.

Bob Cameron here gives us the
opportunity to press our noses at the
window of where we live: To look
down the coast on a clear day. To see
the mountains as the great
parentheses that set off several sections of
a city. To compare the historic aerial
photographs of yesterday with the
huge steel punctuation marks of
today's skyline. To prove how hard
we play, how brilliantly we light the
night, how arrogantly we reshaped the
earth. Suddenly the freeways emerge
as spectacular sculpture. For once, the
city is comprehensible."

"ABOVE LOS ANGELES is
nothing less than our largest family
album shot by a most unusual
professional, who knew exactly how to
concentrate on our best sides and how
to present our wrinkles in their most
flattering light."
—— From an introductory
commentary by Art Seidenbaum.