Dark City - Jim Heimann

Autor: JIM HEIMANN

Editorial: Taschen

Lenguaje: Español

ISBN13: 9783836560764

Reseña: In the years following World War I Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a tarnished patina began to coat its ever-more glamorous facade. As thousands flocked to the city with their dreams and desires so too came get-rich-quick schemes phony religions organized crime and corruption. A visual history like no other Dark City brings together images from archives museums newspaper photo morgues private collections and the authors extensive image library to reveal the true grit grime and sheer horror stories of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1950s. In large format we roam through the back alleys gin joints tattoo parlors gambling dens nightclubs and the most brutal crime scenes to uncover a city crawling with murder and mayhem. From Sunset Boulevard to a jazz-saturated Central Avenue tabloid headlines chronicle the most famous celebrities and infamous crimes in a hopped-up city that provided inspiration for journalists pulp fiction scribes and filmland script writers in their creation of the noir genre. With rare vintage magazine reprints from the crime tabloids of the time this is a uniquely evocative visual history through which the crime crooks crazies and mean streets of the City of Angels are transformed from myth to reality.