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KEYNOTE: Celebrating the exuberant, turbulent history of Los Angeles! Picturing Los Angeles illustrates the creation, evolution, and ever-changing face of Los Angeles. Through stunning photography, the city's intriguing, important, and unexpectedly influential past is revealed. These images function like frames from a movie, offering glimpses of an ever-evolving metropolis. Drawing upon more than two hundred years of images and human experience, the authors have gathered a telling array of newspaper photos, historical snapshots of the movie industry, and photos that offer a glimpse into the sports, politics, industry, social change, crime, disasters, arts, and everyday life of each decade. AUTHORS: Jon and Nancy Wilkman are Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmakers and writers. Long-time Angelenos, Jon and Nancy share a passion for their city's rich and underappreciated past as well as L.A.'s vibrant and multicultural present. REVIEWS: “In a freeway-fast flow of image and text, two savvy interpreters of Los Angeles evoke the distinctive blend of urbanism, ethnicity, eccentricity, the unexpected, and the traditional that is the Great Gatsby of American cities.” Kevin Starr Professor of History University of Southern California ""Evocative photographs and illuminating text are interwoven into the best gift of all for anyone interested in the story of one of the world's most influential and misunderstood cities. Well researched and beautifully illustrated, Picturing Los Angeles captures our Angeleno -- and American -- dreams, achievements, missed opportunities and emerging multicultural identity."" Carolyn Kozo Cole Curator of Photographs Los Angeles Public Library ""I've been reporting the news in Los Angeles for almost 60 years. Picturing Los Angeles brought back powerful memories of recent times, but it also transported me back more than two hundred years . . . Here are the headlines, newsmakers and everyday Angelenos who gave life to L.A.'s little-known past. It's quite a story."" Stan Chambers KTLA Channel 5 News *

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Jon and Nancy Wilkman are husband and wife documentary filmmakers and writers, with a special interest in history. Their documentaries have received numerous awards and have been seen around the world. Long-time Angelenos, Jon and Nancy share a passion for their city's rich and underappreciated past, as well as L.A.'s vibrant and multicultural present. Jon and Nancy Wilkman are husband and wife documentary filmmakers and writers, with a special interest in history. Their documentaries have received numerous awards and have been seen around the world. Long-time Angelenos, Jon and Nancy share a passion for their city's rich and underappreciated past, as well as L.A.'s vibrant and multicultural present.

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