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Documenting Los Angeles |
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Martin H. Krieger, USC |
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Over the last 15 years I have systematically photographed some of Los Angeles. In a recent book, Urban Tomographies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), I suggest that it is suites of images of the same phenomena, in effect tomograms, are especially informative. These montages are drawn from some of my projects. If you click on an image you will link to a fully detailed version.
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I have photographed all the electrical stations of the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (think “Chinatown”), spread throughout the city of LA as well as in adjacent areas, built from post WW I to the present. |
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I have photographed the facades of more than 800 storefront houses of worship in Los Angeles. (I discuss them in my Urban Tomographies book.) Pentecostalism has its “jerusalem” in Los Angeles, the Azusa Street Mission in downtown Los Angeles in about 1906-08, from which modern Pentecostalism spread throughout the world. |
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I ride the bus to work and to get around Los Angeles. I do have a car, but using transit I can read the newspaper or a book. Here are people on various bus routes I have used. If you want to hear what it sounds like, please go to http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~sound . |
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MacArthur Park is just west of downtown Los Angeles. On its east side, on Alvarado St, and on the adjacent side streets, is an intense Hispanic commercial area. There are other such areas in Los Angeles, such as Broadway and Cesar E Chavez in Boyle Heights. |
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The weekend Cypress College Swapmeet in Cypress California (in Orange County) must have around 1000 stalls. Here is a sampling. No antiques here, and no high end items here. |
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While Los Angeles is supposedly a car city, many of its residents make use of public transit. Here is the Metro light rail system. During rush hours the trains are as densely packed as they are in New York City. |
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Under a grant from the Haynes Foundation, I have been documenting the Orthodox Jewish enclave in West Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson. I have focused on commercial life, noting the “hechshers” or different certifications of Kashruth on the various establishments. |
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This is NOT Los Angeles, but Paris France. I thought planners would be interested in comparative photographs, 1870 and 2008. Charles Marville photographed Paris for Haussmann and Napoleon III, and a team of us rephotographed his scenes in 2008-2009. If you go to http://www.usc.edu/sppd/parismarville you can see many more such comparisons and links to current Street View images. Supported by USC’s Office of the Provost. |
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The Rose Bowl Flea Market meets the second Sunday of the month. A mixture of flea market and swapmeet. Lots of vintage, some antiques, some contemporary furniture. People walk around with shopping carts to carry their finds. Here I focus on the sellers and their trucks. |
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Santee Alley is a several blocks long bazaar just south of downtown Los Angles in the fashion district. The shops are rented and established. There are as well street vendors, sometimes between the shops, sometimes on the floor (good for CD/DVDs). |
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During 2004-2006, I visited and photographed more than 200 worksites in Los Angeles, paying especial attention to people at work. Here is a small sample: foundries, movie production , heat treating of metal, garment production, and concrete manufacturing. This project was supported by a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. |