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Title
Hollywood model with the right measurements
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator
McCulloh, Douglas
Contributor
Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 200-
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's caption reads, "A group of Woodbury University architecture students holed up in an abandoned Hollywood storefront and built a 24-foot-long model of Hollywood. The project was big; it had actually begun the previous semester. A team roamed the city making field measurements. Sheets of particle board became streets, alleys, foundations. A bandsaw chopped wood blocks into structures, accurately scaled, carefully positioned. I kept coming by. The developing model slowly, strangely superseded the actuality outside. The group began to apply digital photos to the buildings - facades of facades. They stepped back. The creation was complete, and it was good. The students hovered over Hollywood like demigods, studio heads, real estate agents."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00081665
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b4_f2_i42
CARL0004974164
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3789
Subject
Stores & shops--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Architectural models
Architectural design--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs

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