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Los Angeles lives largest in the world's imagination. It can be a projection, a solution, a temporary fix, a long-term goal. For Lynell George--and millions of others--it's simply home. After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame by Lynell George is the result of this award-winning journalist's years of contemplating and writing about the arts, culture, and social issues of Los Angeles, always with an emphasis on place and the identity of the people who live in--or leave--L.A. As a staff writer for the Los Angeles Timesand LA Weekly,Lynell George explored place after place that makes the city tick, met person after person, and encountered the cumulative heart of the city. After/Imageis her collection of essays, evocative photographs, profiles, and reportage focused on Los Angeles beneath-the-surface--both the past and the here-and-now. In its pages, Lynell George explores a set of questions about her native city: After decades of wholesale rethinking, what distinguishing features of the city remain deeply rooted? What rituals, details, passed-on lifestyles persist outside the edges of the frame--beyond the projected idea of Los Angeles? What are the lasting memories, the essential "afterimages" upon which we reflect? What do its people carry around in their own imagination and their hearts? How does the rest of the country look at L.A.--and why? Lynell George's contemplations about Los Angeles are deeply in sync with the Angel City Press mantra: no one book can capture the scope of the city--a place with many stories to tell. And yet, with After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame,Lynell George proves every mantra can be re-examined.… (plus d'informations)
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This was a book I enjoyed very much as it was about Los Angeles as viewed by a native born city girl, now living in New York City. The book original premise was intended to document the local arts community and how it has evolved over time. Sadly, what happened instead is that there is no longer an arts community left to document. If anything, there are just random artists operating in isolation hoping to connect with someone. The book then translates for the reader the loss of sense of community with the eradication of space for actual communities to live as they had historically. Lastly the book crashes to a screeching halt with the predicable conclusion that Los Angeles cannot be “a place” any longer. Los Angeles is now the apocalyptic home of permanent physical erasure. It is only a memory in the recesses of those who once lived here but are now projected into a future “Angelinos” are not choosing nor creating. Outside forces are doing the choosing and creating. The best part of this book is the attention to language use and desire to be as expressive as possible when most writers are satisfied to made broad brush condemnations of Los Angeles. The author is a photographer and her work is featured in this book as well. The pictures in this book are more contemporary, although the thoughts and reminiscences dive back to the 1960s and 1970s. This book was published by Angel City Press and is nicely constructed. Some book chapters were previously published elsewhere. Overall, this is a good book for your personal library to have especially if you collect on Southern California. I do. Other corresponding books to read along with it would be: (History) Coast of Dreams, by Kevin Starr; (Anti After/Image) Los Angeles on Instagram, by Dan Kurtman; (similar to After/Image) Los Angeles: Improbable City, by John Halpern. ( )
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Sometimes when I turn a corner here in Los Angeles, I'm haunted by a sensation.
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I walk to remember and to tell and honor those stories--what still lies just outside of the frame and the image of Los Angeles that live inside of me. And us.
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Los Angeles lives largest in the world's imagination. It can be a projection, a solution, a temporary fix, a long-term goal. For Lynell George--and millions of others--it's simply home. After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame by Lynell George is the result of this award-winning journalist's years of contemplating and writing about the arts, culture, and social issues of Los Angeles, always with an emphasis on place and the identity of the people who live in--or leave--L.A. As a staff writer for the Los Angeles Timesand LA Weekly,Lynell George explored place after place that makes the city tick, met person after person, and encountered the cumulative heart of the city. After/Imageis her collection of essays, evocative photographs, profiles, and reportage focused on Los Angeles beneath-the-surface--both the past and the here-and-now. In its pages, Lynell George explores a set of questions about her native city: After decades of wholesale rethinking, what distinguishing features of the city remain deeply rooted? What rituals, details, passed-on lifestyles persist outside the edges of the frame--beyond the projected idea of Los Angeles? What are the lasting memories, the essential "afterimages" upon which we reflect? What do its people carry around in their own imagination and their hearts? How does the rest of the country look at L.A.--and why? Lynell George's contemplations about Los Angeles are deeply in sync with the Angel City Press mantra: no one book can capture the scope of the city--a place with many stories to tell. And yet, with After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame,Lynell George proves every mantra can be re-examined.
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The best part of this book is the attention to language use and desire to be as expressive as possible when most writers are satisfied to made broad brush condemnations of Los Angeles. The author is a photographer and her work is featured in this book as well. The pictures in this book are more contemporary, although the thoughts and reminiscences dive back to the 1960s and 1970s. This book was published by Angel City Press and is nicely constructed. Some book chapters were previously published elsewhere. Overall, this is a good book for your personal library to have especially if you collect on Southern California. I do. Other corresponding books to read along with it would be: (History) Coast of Dreams, by Kevin Starr; (Anti After/Image) Los Angeles on Instagram, by Dan Kurtman; (similar to After/Image) Los Angeles: Improbable City, by John Halpern. (