Waiting for Los Angeles | Collections | The Huntington

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Everything
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"From January 2003 to May 2004, photographer Anthony Hernandez walked the basin of the Los Angeles River, recording what he saw--which, as the book's title implies, was more or less 'Everything.' For Hernandez, to explore the river was to explore his own past. As a boy growing up in Boyle Heights, a largely Latino neighborhood in East Los Angeles, he played in the concrete basin, or as he puts it, got into 'mischief,' exploring railroad flares in its tunnel-like storm drains ... By definition, photographs freeze time. But when they are collected and linked, as these are, they move through time--which since the dawn of figurative language has been symbolized as a river. A river is also an icon of renewal. Water fills it, evaporates, and descends again as rain. There is, however, a warning quality to the vignettes Hernandez captured in this river. Non-biodegradable dolls, the undead, gird for attack; pollutants glisten and, in the case of the bird on the cover, kill. Many images are, to be sure, breathtakingly beautiful, both in color and composition. But they suggest that we as a culture may have through negligence blown our chance at regeneration"--From essay.
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Passengers waiting for Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California
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View of passengers waiting to take a ride on the Angels Flight incline railway, at the intersection of Hill Street and Third Street in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Vermont & Wilshire Blvd
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Black-and-white photograph of an eye-level view of people waiting for the bus at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California, with pedestrians and automobile traffic in the background, as well as a Texaco gasoline station and buildings.
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Los Angeles's first drive-in theater, 10860 West Pico, Los Angeles. 1934
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A slightly raised view of two long lines of automobiles waiting to get in to the first drive-in theater in Los Angeles at 10860 West Pico. There is a ticket booth in the bottom right corner, and two young men dressed in white speaking to the drivers of the automobiles at the front of the lines. Across the street there is a grocery store called "Green Spray Market".
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Barbershop, Jonathan Club, 545 South Figueroa, Los Angeles. 1937
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The barbershop in the Jonathan Club at 545 South Figueroa in Los Angeles. A long, tall room with a black and white tile floor and marble facing around mirrors on the walls. There are a few regular chairs for waiting on the left, and at least six barber's chairs, each with its own sink. Hair dryers are mound on racks with wheels.
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Los Angeles from a balloon, Los Angeles. 1902
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A panoramic view of Los Angeles taken from a hot air balloon. The area pictured is largely residential, with few vacant lots. The area above the horizon has been blotted out, but the ropes of the balloon are visible across the top of the image. A note written in white in the bottom left corner reads "Pierce 8003".
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