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Shades of L.A
Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums
By Cole, Carolyn Kozo & Kobayashi, Kathy & Library, Los Angeles Public
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- ISBN
- 978-1-56584-313-4
- Publisher
- New Press
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Reviewed on October 1, 1996
The illustrations in Shades of L.A. come from the archives of a project of the same name in the Los Angeles Public Library. Cole, curator of the library's photography collection, is project director; Kobayashi is the project historian and consultant. The subjects of these ordinary snapshots are African Americans, urban American Indians, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Pacific Islands immigrants who ended up in Los Angeles. The photographers were family members or friends, anonymous recorders of seemingly ordinary moments in these lives. The cultural concessions and cross-pollinations are apparent in nearly every image: the Nagano family with a Christmas tree (1930); the first television and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
