241 photographs, including 12 in color. News photographs bring reality to life
in a very special way. And for more than a hundred years the Los Angeles Times
has published photographs of the people and events that shape our daily world.
During the past six decades the paper has maintained its own staff of skilled
men and women capable of shooting a crime scene, a Hollywood wedding, or a pier
fire with equal dexterity. More than 225 of these extraordinary images of our
Times, including a Pulitzer Prize winner and a dozen color action photographs
from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, have been brought together in this book, a
first collection of great photojournalism from the newspaper's pages. Seen
together they make up a mini history of Southern California, from the Roarding
Twenties to the Far-Out Eighties. (...) A preface by Wilson Thomas, the editor
of the Times; an introduction by photo editor Jim Wilson, the man in charge of
assigning stories to the photographers; and an anecdotal essay by Iris
Schneider, herself a staff photographer, cap off a collection of visual delight,
of nostalgia, history, and drama.