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Film and Media Arts

From moving pictures to an established industry, film and media have the power to capture our most powerful stories. Learn more about how it has evolved and helped tell diverse stories.

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In these photos, the city's farmers' markets can be seen evolving over the past century, with many growing from small clusters of trucks or buildings into the grand enterprises they are today.
Lita Albuquerque, "Spine of the Earth"
Artbound Flashback Moments: Artworks/Earthworks is an exploration of land art featuring the work of artist Lita Albuquerque, sculptor Christo, and architect Thom Mayne.
Pamela Littky photographed the townspeople and places of Baker, California and Beatty, Nevada, two towns that lay claim to the title "Gateway to Death Valley."
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Lead artist and award-winning photographer Sara Terry put together a select of photographs from the participants, drawing attention to the commonalities of our seemingly disparate approaches to dreaming.
Photographic views of the Owens Dry Lakebed , Lone Pine California,  spread out as Patricia Chidlaw creates her composition for a painting. | Photo: Osceola Refetoff
Unbeknownst to each other, L.A. photographer Osceola Refetoff and Santa Barbara realist painter Patricia Chidlaw were interpreting the same landscapes over the last five years.
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The LACMA9 Art+Film Lab, a traveling film and video workshop, cinema, and oral history project, reflects on their time in Inglewood.
Desert playas, considered to be the flattest naturally occurring geographic feature on Earth, offer unique physical facets that continue to inspire the human imagination.
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Grand Central Market has existed in the same downtown location for almost 100 years. This is its story.
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In this month's Community Story Lab the participants turned their cameras on themselves, layering and complicating the meaning of the ubiquitous "selfie."
Sea lions, intertwined. | Photo: Courtesy Steve Munch
The right photograph takes you back, and whisks you forward and places you firmly in the present. Time travel exists.
"It's a Mess Without You!" Cinco, CA, 2011 | Photo: Osceola_Refetoff
High & Dry explores what a window -- as seen through the lens of a camera -- can relate to a viewer about memory and time.
Apple G Jackson (Brandon Hunt), impersonator, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2012 (Courtesy Lorena Turner)
Lorena Turner photographed a selection of Michael Jackson impersonators for her book about Jackson's influence on American popular culture.
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