Angel City Press produces highly illustrated books about Los Angeles and Southern California, with particular emphasis on art, architecture, photography, design, and cultural history. The press now operates as part of the library and in furtherance of its mission to preserve and promote the history...
Angel City Press produces highly illustrated books about Los Angeles and Southern California, with particular emphasis on art, architecture, photography, design, and cultural history. The press now operates as part of the library and in furtherance of its mission to preserve and promote the history...
The first shows focus on architecture and its culture in metropolitan Los Angeles from 1940 to 1990, as it grew from a lightly scattered city of under three million to a dense conurbation, over 80 miles across, of almost 15. The Getty itself anchors the programme in Overdrive, a wonderful...
is typical of Woo’s maximum-overdrive movie-making. His films are distinctive in their nonstop action, their jaw-dropping stunts and their one-damn-thing-after another exuberance. The mayhem has a rock-’em, sock-’em, almost surreal quality, ...