Sins of the City, The Real Los AngelesThe Real Los Angeles Noir

The Real Los Angeles Noir

Cover Art for 9783836560764, Sins of the City, The Real Los AngelesThe Real Los Angeles Noir by Jim Heimann
ISBN: 9783836560764
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
Published: 30 August, 2017
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A visual history like no other, Sins of the City brings together images from archives, museums, newspaper photo morgues, private collections, and the author's 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.

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