Los Angeles Mini

Book Overview

Whether it's the best of examples of contemporary architecture by Lautner and Gehry or the extravagant natural resources, long-time resident Tim Street-Porter captures the essence of the L.A. experience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847831078
• ISBN13: 9780847831074
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 0.9" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Sunny delight

There is a much larger version, published in 2006, which I had on my Wish List for ages, just waiting for the price to go down but it never budged so I went for this newer mini edition. The original was 240 pages and this mini is 264 so both books may not be exactly the same. Overall a pleasant enough title to remember LA by, though it's not a tourist memory-jogger but concentrates on buildings: public and private. Street-Porter has lived in LA long enough to know what to photograph and he presents a rich colorful selection but I was slightly disappointed by the book's presentation. The photos don't seem to have any particular order. I would have preferred to see themes like LA modern; commercial high-rise; retail; gardens; ocean front; signs; classics (Schindler; Neutra, Lloyd Wright, Neff etc). I also thought the book's design suffers from a common photo book fault in having all the captions at the back: so get prepared to flip a lot. Actually the captions are short enough be accommodated with the photos as there is enough page space and where the images bleed the following page would have been fine. This mini edition joins the increasing number of visual books about LA architecture. One I enjoyed is Looking At Los Angeles with 225 photos from eighty-eight photographers and presented in a large landscape format. Street-Porter has also published others with his latest: L.A. Modern looking at thirty-eight buildings in photographic detail though many of the photos also appear in this mini edition. ***SEE SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.

Los Angeles in all its Glory!

What a lovely compact collection of gorgeous images of all the wonderful and varied architecture of Los Angeles. I have stopped off here several times now when enroute to or from New Zealand and made my way around just a few parts of the city, but now that I have seen all that there is on offer I feel the need to explore further on my next visit.