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Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the sunset strip by Robert Landau Signed.
Signed, as well as Inscribed by author Robert Landau.
Title: Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip
Publisher: Angel City Press
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Evenhuis, Frans
Dust Jacket Condition: None, missing
Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Signed by Author
Synopsis:
The Sunset Strip, circa 1967. Buffalo Springfield called it right: "There's something happening here what it is ain't exactly clear." What was happening then is now absolutely clear. Rock 'n' roll and the kids who lived it were coming of age right there on The Strip. And, as if to define the era, a few independent minds in the music industry posted giant, temporary monuments that said it all. Billboards. Bigger than life. Hand-painted homages to rock. The Doors led the way.
It seemed that billboards would chronicle rock forever.
In Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip, author/photographer Robert Landau showcases these signs of the time, a time when rock was the most important music ever recorded, when youth, politics, and art merged to turn counterculture into mainstream culture.
Landau (watch his video trailer) was right there, a kid destined to be a professional photographer, shooting his first pictures. Decades later, he rediscovered his Kodachromes, the only extensive collection of photographs that document those iconic billboards. Impassioned, he interviewed the artists, record producers, and designers who shaped those placards, bringing fresh insight to the culture of the day and its lasting impact on the world. He tells it like it was, through the people who lived the music, the time, the energy and the billboards.
A must for every rock lover, pop-art aficionado, and socio-culture freak, Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip is a coffee-table book to read and reread, view and review, a book with a beginning and, perhaps tragically, an end. Yes, the true rock 'n' roll billboard era ended, but Robert Landau has created a bound museum of its best artwork, a gallery that shows what was happening there. On the Sunset Strip.
From the Inside Flap:
Dateline 1967, Sunset Strip, Los Angeles: Robert Landau was right there, a kid destined to be a professional photographer, shooting his first pictures. Decades later, he rediscovered his Kodachromes, the only extensive collection of photographs that document those iconic billboards. Impassioned, he interviewed the artists, record producers, and designers who shaped those placards, bringing fresh insight to the culture of the day and its lasting impact on the world. He tells it like it was, through the people who lived the music, the time, the energy and the billboards.
Robert Landau’s work has been exhibited in several museum exhibitions including: American Advertising Museum in Portland, Arco Center for Visual Arts in Los Angeles, Bartlesville Museum in Oklahoma, Getty’s Pacific Standard Time in Los Angeles, High Desert Museum in Yucca, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Theater in London.
Robert’s photography is also in the permanent collection of the Oakland Museum and is on permanent display at LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal. His photographs have hung in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Europe.
His photographs have appeared in the pages of AMERICA PHOTO, FORBES, GEO, HORIZON, INTERVIEW, IN STYLE, NEWSWEEK, TIME, VOGUE, GQ and numerous international publications.
He is the author of: Rock N Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip, Angel City Press, 2012, Hollywood Poolside, Angel City Press, 1997, -- Airstream, Peregrine Smith Books, 1986 -- Outrageous L.A., Chronicle Books, 1984, -- Billboard Art, Chronicle books, 1980.
- Dimensions:Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
- Style:Modern (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:2012
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Missing dust jacket.
- Seller Location:North Hollywood, CA
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