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Title
Cosmopolitan Book Shop, Melrose Avenue
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Westwood, Carol
Date Created and/or Issued
1995
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
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.
Looking out from a car towards the Cosmopolitan Book Shop,at 7017 Melrose Avenue and the entrance of a restaurant at 7015 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Book trucks are lined up outside of the bookstore. A person is using the phone booth on the sidewalk. Photograph dated March 1995.
Type
image
Format
1 transparency :35mm., color ;5 x 5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00091426
Carol Westwood Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b019_f4_i138
CARL0004992081
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/117788
Subject
Bookstores--California--Los Angeles
Storefronts--California--Los Angeles
Telephone booths--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Melrose Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Carol Westwood Collection photographs
Dye coupler transparencies

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