Future Studio Design

Book Signing: Sat. May 18, 2013 (drop in from 2 to 5 pm)

A pre-publication party for SONGS IN THE KEY OF LOS ANGELES!

at Future Studio Gallery (aka Home of Chicken Boy on the Roof)

5558 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles 90042 (Highland Park)

 

The book is based on the incredible historic sheet music collection at LA Central Library (the book has examples from 1849-1959), focusing on music about Los Angeles and Southern California. Plus essays on various aspects of the work.

 

This particular celebration has A LOT of NELA connections: Author Josh Kun (NELA resident) • Design by Future Studio (NELA office) • Snackage by Good Girl Dinette (NELA deliciousness) • Entertainment by Rob Waller & Paul Lacques of I See Hawks in LA (NELA residents).

 

• Books will be available for perusal and purchase (hardcover, $50, published by Angel City Press)

• Josh will be here all afternoon for signing and chatting

• Rob & Paul will play a sweet short set around 2:30, possibly including a song from the book that they have recorded

 

There will be many other events for this book throughout the summer (watch this space), but this is the first and we think it might be the funnest and mellowist. Also, the Chicken Boy Shop will be open and there's a lot of art bargains on the walls.

 

Josh's SKLA blog

 

Free, but please rsvp: rsvp@angelcitypress.com

 

How We Worked, How We Played

Herman Schultheis and Los Angeles in the 1930s
Edited by Christina Rice

This is the super-exciting first-ever publication from Photo Friends of the Los Angeles Public Library. The Friends is a support group of the Central Library's Photo Collection. Our mission is to promote the collection (which we do through a series of free talks) and to raise money to add to the online photo archive.

We present The Photographer's Eye--a series in which photographers present and talk about their work, and LA in Focus--a series drawn from the photo collection on topics ranging from LA crime to sports to entertainment.

And now, we have started a book publishing enterprise, with all proceeds benefiting Photo Friends' programs. This softcover book features over 130 images taken by Herman Schultheis in the 1930s. Herman was a Disney animation engineer who spent much of his spare time documenting everyday 1930s Los Angeles. He disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala in 1955; his photos were undiscovered until his wife's death in 1990, when these images came to the attention the library. Now, over 4,000 of his images have been digitized and are available through the library's website (photos.lapl.org). A tasty sampling of these images are now available in this book through amazon.com.

Photo Friends is already planning more publications--on the Valley Times collection, Herald Examiner collection, and the work of several individual photographers whose archives are part of the LAPL photo collection.