This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs
by: Watts, Jennifer A.

Hardcover. New York/London, Merrell, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, 165 color and b$w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Equal parts glamour and cataclysm, sunshine and noir, few cities have provoked visual representation as insistently as LA. This Side of Paradise explores the synergistic relationship between the city and photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the key themes of landscape and the body. Beautifully illustrated throughout, including images by Carleton Watkins, Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Garry Winogrand, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Herb Ritts, John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and many others.