The extensive portfolio of photographic artist Carol Westwood (1942-2011), a native New Yorker who lived in Los Angeles for many years, includes a diverse array of subjects: animals, nudes, American and European cities, and portraits. Additionally, she worked on special and still photography for numerous motion picture and television productions in Hollywood; the archive of her entertainment and celebrity images was distributed internationally by Gamma, Liaison International, Stone Images, and Getty images from 1988-2003. A street view of Sunset Boulevard near Crescent Heights Boulevard. It is a part of the famous "Sunset Strip", the mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard passing through West Hollywood. A billboard advertising Camel cigarettes hovers above a restaurant at 8117 W. Sunset Boulevard. Over the years, this building has been occupied by various businesses, including Villa Frascati, Chamonix, Derrick's restaurant, Hollywood Candy Store, the Crooked Bar, the Coconut Teaszer, and most recently XIV. The background shows magnificent homes in the Hollywood hills.
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image
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1 transparency :color ;6 x 6 cm. Photographic color slides
Billboards--California--West Hollywood Restaurants--California--West Hollywood Dwellings--California--West Hollywood Streets--California--West Hollywood Automobiles--California--West Hollywood Advertising--Cigarettes Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) West Hollywood (Calif.) Sunset Strip (West Hollywood, Calif.) Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs Carol Westwood Collection photographs Dye coupler transparencies Foster and Kleiser Company
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