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Sins of the City: The Real Los Angeles Noir by Jim Heimann: New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1999-05-01
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9780811823197
- Book Title
- Sins of the City : the Real Los Angeles Noir
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Criminology
- Item Weight
- 24.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 1 in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Chronicle Books
ISBN-10
0811823199
ISBN-13
9780811823197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
552709
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sins of the City : the Real Los Angeles Noir
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Criminology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-043937
Reviews
Reviews from: Ray Gun Los Angeles Times So you've seen L.A. Confidential more than a few times and you're itching to know more about the City of Angels' seedy side? In Sins of the City, Jim Heimann collects tabloid shots taken at morgues, mafia murder scenes and marijuana heists plus some sweet ol' amateur porn thrown in for good measure. Perfect browsing material to keep next to the can at your swing club. By Jonathan Kirsch Jim Heimann is the man to see in Hollywood if you are making a movie that is set in Southern California in bygone times he combines the skills of an archivist, a cultural anthropologist, a designer and a historian, and he knows where to look for a dusty photographic relic that shows what any corner of byway of Los Angeles looked like on a particular day in the past. Heimann's remarkable skill set is put to good use in Sins of the City: The Real Los Angeles Noir, a beguiling collection of black-and-white photographs that depict the demimonde of Los Angeles from the '20s to the '50s. What the photographer Weegee did for New York in his classic Naked City, Heimann now does for Los Angeles. Sins of the City proves that the depiction of Los Angeles in countless-noir movies and hard-boiled detective stories was not merely the work of an overheated imagination. Her are real-life cops and robbers, gangsters and gambler, strippers and hookers, clairvoyants and charlatans, starlets and the occasional authentic star, all of them captured by a corps of photographers who roamed the meaner streets of Los Angeles with Speed Graphic cameras in hand.
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
364.9794/94
Synopsis
New in town, huh? Look around, kidpalm trees, movie stars, glittering promises of fame and fortune....Now look closer, and you'll see the real action in the City of Angels: goons and thugs, backroom dice clubs, motel room cheesecake shots, crusading cops, and a few unlucky saps who didn't make it out alive. Sins of the City is a daring photographic compendium of vintage vice in Los Angeles from the '20s to the '50s, the true-life pictures of a milieu immortalized in the hard-bitten novels of Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley, and James Ellroy, and such films as Criss Cross, Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and LA Confidential. Pore over 200 shots of the people, places, and events that only tabloids such as Hush-Hush, Confidential, and Whisper dared publish. Witness the LAPD bust a floating casino, see a dapper BugsySiegel "before" (living) and "after" (deeply deceased), and marvel at the criminal excess of marijuana-stuffed suitcases. Author Jim Heimann has scoured archives and newspaper morgues for prime examples of Southland's inglorious past, presenting a compelling history of its notorious corruption. Sure, it's a tough city, but thankfully someone was there to record it all., New in town, huh? Look around, kidpalm trees, movie stars, glittering promises of fame and fortune....Now look closer, and you'll see the real action in the City of Angels: goons and thugs, backroom dice clubs, motel room cheesecake shots, crusading cops, and a few unlucky saps who didn't make it out alive. Sins of the City is a daring photographic compendium of vintage vice in Los Angeles from the '20s to the '50s, the true-life pictures of a milieu immortalized in the hard-bitten novels of Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley, and James Ellroy, and such films as Criss Cross, Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and LA Confidential. Pore over 200 shots of the people, places, and events that only tabloids such as Hush-Hush, Confidential, and Whisper dared publish. Witness the LAPD bust a floating casino, see a dapper Bugsy Siegel "before" (living) and "after" (deeply deceased), and marvel at the criminal excess of marijuana-stuffed suitcases. Author Jim Heimann has scoured archives and newspaper morgues for prime examples of Southland's inglorious past, presenting a compelling history of its notorious corruption. Sure, it's a tough city, but thankfully someone was there to record it all., The author of "May I Take Your Order" offers a daring photographic compendium of vintage vice in Los Angeles from the '20s to the '50s, the true-life pictures of a milieu immortalized in the hard-bitten novels of Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley, and James Ellroy. 200 photos.
LC Classification Number
HV6795.L6H45 1999
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