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Los Angeles Documentary Project photographs by Robbert Flick

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Description: Set of 15 prints by photographer Robbert Flick taken for the Los Angeles Documentary Project, a photographic project documenting various aspects of the city of Los Angeles for its 200th anniversary in 1981. Each 61 x 51 cm (20 x 24 inch) print consists of 100 black-and-white systematic views along the streetscapes of Los Angeles, each 3 x 4.5 cm presented in a 10 x 10 grid. Works for the project were exhibited at the Watts Tower Arts Center from April 20 to May 14, 1981.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1980-1981.
Call number: photCL 441
Creator: Flick, Robbert(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Robbert Flick, March 2000.

Los Angeles Documentary Project photograph collection

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A collection of 21 photographs and three promotional publications from the Los Angeles Documentary Project, a photographic survey of the city of Los Angeles in celebration of its bicentennial in 1981. Alan Jutzi and John Humble created the project for the Photography Museum, with financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts. The original project comprised 120 prints by eight photographers; these 21 prints are a sampling from the project and represent the work of six photographers: Joe Deal (1 print); Robbert Flick (6 prints, each containing a series of images); Douglas Hill (1 print); John Humble (2 prints); Bill Owens (9 prints, including self-portraits); and Susan Ressler (2 prints). Robbert Flick's photographs depict scenes in Marina del Rey, Venice Beach, Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles International Airport, and Centinela Park. The collection contains color photographs (some Cibachrome) and black-and-white photographs, and most are signed by the photographers. Works for the project were exhibited in Los Angeles at Mount Saint Mary's University, the Watts Towers Arts Center, and the San Pedro Art Gallery.

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Los Angeles Documentary Project photograph collection

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Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Bicentennial - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: collection of LAT clips ; complete issue, Civic Center News, 9/2/1980 ; complete issue, California Historical Courier, 10/1980 ; complete issue, Southern California Business, 12/17/1980 ; complete issue, Civic Center News, 9/1/1981 ; Section One of Reader, 9/4/1981 ; booklet from Auto. Club of Southern California, 200 Treasures of Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1980 ; related material.

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Reprints And Publications - Los Angeles Times Magazine

Manuscripts

Los Angeles Times advertising supplement issues dated November 22, 1970 (Today Ireland); July 11, 1971 (Convention Center); April 16, 1972 (Israel Today); September 10, 1972 (Mexico); April 8, 1973 (Asia & the Pacific); May 6, 1973 (Israel Today); May 20, 1973 (Germany); November 18, 1973 (Broadway Plaza); April 6, 1975 (Asia & the Pacific); June 25, 1978 (Los Angeles Board of Realtors); November 10, 1978 (Hollywood Diamond Jubilee); October 15, 1979 (Careers '80); August 31, 1980 (Los Angeles 1781 - 1981). Los Angeles Times America's Prestige Motor Cars issues dated February 10, 1963; February 16, 1964; March 2, 1969. Los Angeles Times First Run issues dated June 4, 1978; December 10, 1978; June 10, 1979.

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Los Angeles History Project

Manuscripts

This interview bank consists of 92 3/4 inch videocassettes and 2 binders of corresponding transcripts collectively entitled "Los Angeles History Project." The videotapes include interviews with prominent Los Angeles residents and were used to create volumes 2 and 3 of the "Los Angeles History Project".

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Views of Chinatown and related neighborhoods in downtown Los Angeles

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This collection contains 131 black-and-white photographs (including some duplicates) of views of building exteriors and streets scenes in Old Chinatown and neighboring residential and industrial areas of downtown Los Angeles, California, that were taken prior to the demolition of the area beginning on December 23, 1933, to make way for the Los Angeles Union Station railroad terminal. Photographs are gelatin silver prints; sheets 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format). The photographs consist of eye-level street views focused on the area of downtown Los Angeles, around Apablasa Street (spelled Apalabasa or Apalabassa on the images), that was bordered by Alameda Street to the west, Aliso Street to the south, Date and College Streets to the north, and Lyon to the east. The views include images of industrial and commercial areas; retail storefronts; warehouses; manufacturing; utility and railroad buildings; houses and apartments with balconies; dirt streets and alleys; children; automobiles; and dilapidated and vacant buildings. The signage on retail buildings often reflects the Chinese and Hispanic heritage of residents and shop owners in the area. The photographer is unidentified, but presumably the photographs were created to aid in planning for the project, perhaps as part of the process of determining property valuation. Notably, Item 21 has a handwritten note, "on S.P. land not to be acquired." The locations for the majority of the photographs are indicated by street and building numbers at lower right that were written on the original negatives, and some also have parcel numbers written on the prints. The approximate year for the images is based on a photograph of the Familian Pipe & Supply Co. building (Item 17) that reads, "Moving to our new home corner Sacramento & Mateo St. Dec. 15, 1933." But differences in trees and foliage among views of the same buildings indicate the photographs were not taken all at once (see Item 19 versus Item 20 and Item 84 versus Item 85).

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Los Angeles Documentary Project photographs by Robbert Flick

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