Bunker Hill in the Rearview Mirror: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of an Urban Neighborhood - Softcover

Rice, Christina; Roberts, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069270342X ISBN 13: 9780692703427

Publisher: Photo Friends Publications, 2016

Synopsis

During its history, the area of Downtown Los Angeles known as Bunker Hill has been viewed in many different ways; inaccessible, upscale, run-down, blighted, erased, renewed. These perceptions over the decades have always been open to interpretation and either agreed with or challenged. An area that has been subject to more change than any other place in the city, it has arguably invoked more passion and reverence than any other Los Angeles neighborhood, while inspiring equal amounts of disdain. Bunker Hill in the Rear-View Mirror: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of an Urban Neighborhood, an exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library on display from April 2015 – April 2016, uses photographs, news articles, recollections and unique ephemera from LAPL Special Collections to illustrate the complex story of Bunker Hill, from its heyday in the 1880's to its redevelopment in the 1960's and 70's. Curated by librarians Christina Rice, Photo Collection, and Emma Roberts, Art & Music/Rare Books, the exhibit is enhanced by this companion catalog with contributing essays by Adrian Scott Fine, Nathan Marsak, Merry Ovnick, Meredith Drake Reitan, and Donald R. Spivack.

About this title

About the Author

Emma Roberts is a lecturer in art history at Liverpool John Moores University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Photo Friends Publications
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 069270342X
• ISBN 13: 9780692703427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134