Shades of L.A. is an archive of photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and include daily life, social organizations, work, personal and holiday celebrations, and migration and immigration activities. Made possible and accessible through the generous support of the Security Pacific National Bank, Sunlaw Cogeneration Partners, Photo Friends, California Council for the Humanities, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
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Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction. Ansi Elagoz’s parents were both born in Turkey and spent a year in the U.S. as foreign exchange students. Her mother was an exchange student in Nebraska in 1966, as was her father in Philadelphia in 1965. They returned to Turkey and met while pursuing their university studies in Ankara. They settled in Izmir, Turkey, where Ansi was born in 1976. She was a high school exchange student in Italy in 1988 and studied film at UCLA, graduating in 1993. She returned to Turkey and became a film producer in Istanbul. Ansi Elagoz, second from right, in her prom dress on the night of her high school prom in Izmir, Turkey. To her left is her aunt, to her right is her mother and on the far right her other aunt.
Turks Turkish Americans Women Families Proms Living rooms Dresses Izmir (Turkey) Shades of L.A. Collection photographs Shades of L.A. Turkish American photographs
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