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.
In 1915, just two years after the L.A. Aqueduct opened, Julius Goodwin Oliver and William Henry Frick packed up their Ford Model T and drove north from Hollywood to see where their water came from.
The Original Farmers Market at Third and Fairfax opened in July of 1934, and was an instant hit: the first Fall Festival was held that very year among the brand-new stalls.
Handful of early film noirs placed mothers and women at their center, pushing back against noir restraints, but still reinforcing domestic, gender, and racial normatives of the day.
In the act of taking pictures we preserve a record of ourselves. Parker Davis collects photographs from different sources to create a wonderland of composites.
The South Bay area of Los Angeles County is mostly residential and commercial now, but for a very long time it was an agricultural center. From the time the area was settled by immigrants until the mid to late 1900s, it was all berries, dairies, celery...
Street food is a tradition in Los Angeles, and luckily there's photographic proof: check out this gallery of Angelenos enjoying curbside dinner as far back as the '30s.
From East Los Angeles surrealism and indie video games, to monster masks and collective typing, here's our list of art events taking place this weekend in Los Angeles.
Fuller's 1959 film took a very different approach from other film noir of the 1950s, and serves as useful text from which to consider changes to the genre and Southern California's racial dynamics.