Rotogravure Sunday is back!
Southern California Pepper Trees (Fred Archer)
In the 1920′s Touring Topics published a monthy Rotogravure section featuring great photography and art from great photographers and artists of California and the West. The dreamlike quality of the pictures captures, in my opinion, the vision of California and the West at its most romantic and I love looking at them. Hope you do do too!
On the famous Seventeen Mile Drive (Karl Struss)
Moonlight at Capistrano (Karl Struss)
This beautiful photograph by Frederick Simpson shows a quaint scene of Los Angeles' old Chinatown entitled "NEWS OF THE WORLD."
Even by the time this photo by Karl Struss was published in 1927, the Cahuenga Pass' Dark Canyon was already being transformed by the development of Hollywood Manor and Hollywood Knolls (Barham Boulevard runs through it today). Could the ruts be the grand daddy of Barham?
Desert Outposts by Roy Hunter
A San Onofre Ranch (Karl Struss)
Charles Hamilton Owens painted this stunning view of the USS Shenandoah on its trip from San Diego to Seattle. The beautiful airship was to tragically crash in a storm over Ohio on the morning of September 3, 1925.
The original caption states "A Study in Diagonals - A novel and almost cubistic study of the west portal of the Third Street tunnel by Will Connell."
A great view of the old seaside colony that was once found at the mouth of Topanga Canyon, a time when that a "beach shack" really meant a beach shack. (Will Connell)
This was the Ventura "Freeway" circa 1925 in the vicinity of "Triumfo," (Triunfo) which was apparently a spot between Thousand Oaks and today's Westlake Village. (Ernest M. Pratt)
Coming Up – Part II of “The Siege of Fort Anthony”
Beautiful photographs, Struss was such a great photographer.
Jaw droppingly beautiful. My favorite is “A Study in Diagonals” — that’s an astonishing photo. Thank you Steve. You always find the best material.