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Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surrounding area
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Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center Theater, Mark Taper Forum and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Performing Arts Center, Angeles-Rosedale Cemetery, Bradbury Building, Bullocks-Wilshire Department Store building, the canals in Venice, Capitol Records Tower, Chapman Market, City Hall, Coca Cola Bottling plant, Crossroads of the World, Darkroom Store, Department of Public Works, Douglas Building Lofts, Fox Westwood Village Theater (earlier called the Mann Village Theater), Grand Central Market, Hollyhock House, Holmby Hall, Homer Laughlin Building, International Tower, Irvine/Byrne Building, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles County Court House, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Farmer's Market, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles rail yards, Mann Bruin Theater, Mann's Chinese Theatre (formerly Grauman's), May Company Department Store building, Mayan Theater, Merle Norman Building, Million Dollar Theater, National Homeless Plan Campaign housing, Pacific Design Center, Renaissance Building in Venice, Roxie Theater, Staples Center, Tail-o-the-Pup, Union Passenger Terminal, United Artists Theatre, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Simon Rodia's Towers (formerly Watts Towers), Westin Bonaventure Hotel, White Log Coffee Shops, and Wiltern Theater (formerly Warner Brothers Theater).
Also includes new construction in Anaheim, the City Hall in Beverly Hills, Bethlehem Baptist Church in Compton, St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Glendale, the Academy Theater and Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, condominiums in Newport Beach, the Central Library, Police Department and Gamble House in Pasadena, Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga, Grot in Redondo Beach, Majestic Ventura Theatre in Ventura, and Rae's Restaurant, Santa Monica Pier and Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica. Also sites in Long Beach including California State University, the Federal Court House, Koffee Pot Café, Security Trust and Savings Building, Silver Fox, St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, The Pike at Rainbow Harbor and Villa Riviera. Includes sites in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel Air, Century City, Hollywood, McArthur Park West, Venice, Watts, and Westwood Village.
Arrangement: Arranged by photographer-assigned transparency number. The corresponding digital id numbers used for reproduction requests range from LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01297 to -01421.
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Color transparencies filed in series LC-HS503.
Item captions supplied by photographer.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the Urban Land Institute.
Available for viewing as online digital files made by the photographer from the original transparencies.
Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2005; (DLC/PP-2002:038-2).
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)
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