Dark City. The Real Los Angeles Noir by Jim Heimann Hardcover Book

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Dark City. The Real Los Angeles Noir by Jim Heimann

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Description Explore the darker reality of the City of Angels in this omnibus of photographs and ephemera revealing the underbelly of Los Angeles from the 1920s through the 1950s. From the headline crime of the Black Dahlia to the petty corruption of mayors and cops, discover the flip side of the Southland that inspired the movies and novels which came to...

Publisher Description

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 façade. 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 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.

Author Biography

Jim Heimann is the Executive Editor for TASCHEN. A cultural anthropologist, historian, and an avid collector, he has authored numerous titles on architecture, pop culture, and the history of Los Angeles and Hollywood, including TASCHEN's Surfing, Los Angeles. Portrait of a City, California Crazy, and the All-American Ads series.

Details
  • ISBN 3836560763
  • ISBN-13 9783836560764
  • Title Dark City. The Real Los Angeles Noir
  • Author Jim Heimann
  • Format Hardcover
  • Year 2018
  • Pages 480
  • Publisher Taschen GmbH
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  • Condition: Brand New
  • ISBN-13: 9783836560764
  • Type: NA
  • Publication Name: NA
  • ISBN: 9783836560764
  • Book Title: Dark City. the Real Los Angeles Noir
  • Item Length: 11.7in
  • Publisher: Taschen
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Item Height: 2in
  • Author: Jim Heimann
  • Genre: Photography, True Crime, History, Social Science
  • Topic: Subjects & Themes / Historical, Sociology / General, General, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Criminology, Sociology / Urban
  • Item Width: 10.4in
  • Item Weight: 77.4 Oz
  • Number of Pages: 480 Pages

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