Photographer Robert Landau has been documenting LA’s built and populated environment for more than 30 years. His recent images, taken within, say, the past five years, might inspire a Kitsch/Not Kitsch? exhibition. For example, the above photo of Andaz Hotel on Sunset Strip is one of our weekly photo previews for Paperback LA Book 1, A Casual Anthology: Clothes. Coffee. Crushes. Crime. Taken just last year, it begs the question: Is it kitsch if it’s on purpose? I say yes. What say you?
Check back next week for another photo surprise, part of our warm-up to the May, 2018 publication. We’re sharing some pictures that are not in the book, most of them gone now from the cityscape.
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Row of lit cypress trees at dusk in front of the Andaz Hotel on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, CA
Statue Shop, Ventura Blvd.,San Fernando Valley, 1982
Apartment Building Facade, West Los Angeles,1974
Cadillac Fins, Classic Car lot, Hollywood
Mural on parking lot wall in West L.A., CA circa 1979
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