On a Sunny Afternoon
Artifact of a Walking Study
Railways Once Converged Here
Out of Modernism there’s God
Metropolitan Water District
Metropolitan Water District
Stairway to Nowhere
Vendors in the city
Intersection
A city which once was
Architecture
Japanese Breakfast
Scars on the Landscape
Don’t Hit the Window
A Hill Beyond
Who’s City?
Not Your City
The walking study of W Sunset Boulevard, was almost double the length of the 5th Street walking study, it was hilly, and more car centric. Although the walking path took me through some of the most walkable and desirable neighborhoods in Los Angeles, it was undoubtable that for most all of that time, pedestrians were secondary.
The photographs follow a path west to east, along one of the streets where Los Angeles’ civic identity is represented, constructed and reconstructed. Sunset Boulevard, Stretching from Santa Monica in the far west all through the suburbs to the west and through the center of the city. Sunset Boulevard has been a space which has captured the collective psyche of what Los Angeles and Hollywood is understood as.
The work of Ed Rusche, especially his photography collection of Everybuilding on Sunset. This work was a direct inspiration for my walking studies. The work of documenting a continuous path is a documentation of complete honesty. I believe the area I departed was I believed I would comprehend the city in a way that interests me if I interact with the city explicitly as a pedestrian.
I believe that studying any place through a transect is an invaluable tool for understanding the layers of a place. In
Los Angeles this is exceptionally the case. The street is where the idea, myth, experience of Los Angeles is constructed and reconstructed. From the parks, to the cafes, to the vacant blocks, to the legacy businesses; Sunset shows the good, the bad, the ugly, the hopefully, and the somber of the city.
Los Angeles is a city of streets.
This book of photographs highlights this reality of the city. The city is not lived in nor experienced the same by any one person. These documentations are emblematic of a walk I took.
Public Space
In the classical sense: libraries, parks, and civic infrastructure.
Faux Public Space
Private space that are meant to portray the qualities of public space but fall within the preview of private property.
Impromptu
These are uncertain space, these are confusing spaces, these are edge conditions, these are spaces where people make community where they can make
Sunset Boulevard through Echo Park and Silverlake
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March 2025
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