Published by Cameron and Company, San Francisco, hardcover with dustjacket.
29 x 36 cm.

ABOVE LOS ANGELES

A Collection of Nostalgic and Contemporary Aerial Photographs of greater Los Angeles

"What you have in your hands is a remarkable perspective on one of the world's most ill-defined and surprisingly beautiful regions, a ticket to ride above Los Angeles by helicopter and NASA U-2 and Goodyear blimp to see Southern California in all its sprawling wonder, in all that glorious stretch of natural and human imagination from ocean to stark desert.
Bob Cameron here gives us the opportunity to press our noses at the window of where we live: To look down the coast on a clear day. To see the mountains as the great parentheses that set off several sections of a city. To compare the historic aerial photographs of yesterday with the huge steel punctuation marks of today's skyline. To prove how hard we play, how brilliantly we light the night, how arrogantly we reshaped the earth. Suddenly the freeways emerge as spectacular sculpture. For once, the city is comprehensible."

"ABOVE LOS ANGELES is nothing less than our largest family album shot by a most unusual professional, who knew exactly how to concentrate on our best sides and how to present our wrinkles in their most flattering light."

From an introductory commentary by Art Seidenbaum.

ABOVE LOS ANGELES
covers the area in the following sections:
Shoreline
Then and Now
Downtown
Environs
Sports and
Entertainment
High Above