Taschen
Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir Book
ID: 63725
Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir Book from Taschen publishing is a visual history like no other bringing together images from archives, museums, newspaper photo morgues, private collections, and the author’s extensive image library to reveal the true grit, grime, and sheer horror stories of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1950s. In large format, roam through the back alleys, gin joints, tattoo parlors, gambling dens, nightclubs, and the most brutal crime scenes, to uncover a city crawling with murder and mayhem. From Sunset Boulevard to a jazz-saturated Central Avenue, tabloid headlines chronicle the most famous celebrities and infamous crimes in a hopped-up city that provided inspiration for journalists, pulp fiction scribes, and filmland script writers in their creation of the noir genre. With rare vintage magazine reprints from the crime tabloids of the time, Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir Book is a uniquely evocative visual history through which the crime, crooks, crazies, and mean streets of the City of Angels are transformed from myth to reality.
- Jim Heimann
- Hardcover
- 9.8 x 10.9 in
- 480 Pages
- Slipcase
- Bound-in Facsimile Magazine Clippings
- Die-cut Bullet Holes