“BETTER LIVING THROUGH ELECTRICITY:”INEXPLICABLE LOS ANGELES: GHOSTS AND TRACES
LOS ANGELES, 1940-1990”
Monday, April 15 at 7:30 pm, Friends’ Hall, The Huntington Library00 pm, Lecture Hall 240, Doheny Memorial Library, USC
Join us for a panel discussion with distinguished thinkers and writers about Los Angeles as we ponder the astonishing Southern California Edison archive of 70,000 images devoted to the expansion ofelectrification inthe Los Angeles basin. This event showcases a new online exhibition about landscape and form in Los Angeles, which is part of The Getty's new initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents, an exploration of the rise of modern architecture in Los Angeles, 1940-1990.
This evening's discussion and slide show features images and narratives drawn from the Edison archive at The Huntington Library. Our panelists include writer D.J. Waldie, USC University Professor Leo Braudy, USC history professors Bill Deverell and Philip Ethington, independent curator Claudia BohnSpector, and filmmaker Josh Oreck.
The event is free and open to the public.Join us for an evening’s discussion and presentation of images about architecture, culture, and electricity in modern Los Angeles. As part of the Getty-initiated ’s ambitious Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. project addressing modern architecture in Los Angeles, the Huntington Library has partnered with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West to mount an innovative on-line photography exhibit which explores landscape change in Los Angeles solely by reference to the Southern California Edison archive at The Huntington. Comprised of 70,000 images spanning the late 19th century into the 1970s, the archive offers a remarkable view of what the greater Los Angeles region was and, through electricity, could and did become. Panelists include project organizers Greg Hise and William Deverell, exhibit curators Jessica Kim and Peter Westwick, project designer Kris Mun, photographer Robbert Flick, and Los Angeles Times architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne. The evening is free and open to the public.
This panel discussion and presentation of images is presented in conjunction with our online exhibition, Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990.
Form and Landscape is part ofPacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.This collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together several local cultural institutions fora wide-ranging look at the postwar built environment of the city as a whole, from its famous residential architecture to its vast freeway network, revealing the city’s development and ongoing impact in new ways.
Major support for Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990 has been provided by the Getty Foundation.
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Monday, April 1 at 7:30 pm, Friends’ Hall, The Huntington Library