Softcover Book: PROTOTYPE DRAFT. “Ghost Metropolis, Los Angeles.” A Cartography Of Time, 1900-2001. Philip J. Ethington. 2005

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Softcover Book: Ghost Metropolis, Los Angeles.” A Cartography Of Time, 1900-2001.

Author: Philip J. Ethington

Publisher: USC Dornsife

Location: Los Angeles, California.

Softcover Book: 100-15

Pages:246

Date: 2005

THIS IN NEW CONDITION SOFTCOVER BOOK WAS USED BY JULIUS SHULMAN IN HIS HOLLYWOOD HILLS STUDIO.

THIS SOFTCOVER BOOK IS A PROTOTYPE DRAFT SENT TO JULIUS SHULMAN FOR HIS COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS. IT HAS BEE SIGNED BY PHILIP J. ETHINGTON
PLEASE SEE LENGTHY ETHINGTON COMMENTS COPIED  HERE.

Philip J. Ethington of history and political science stirs up more than spirits with his ambitious multimedia history Ghost Metropolis — he seeks to raise and answer complex questions about how Los Angeles came to be.

Ethington, has spent the last 15 years sifting through the layers of Los Angeles — its many physical incarnations, its tangled histories — to examine, catalog and photograph what remains. “I like to visualize the presence of the past. I see myself making ghosts visible,” he explained. Those histories that so many believe are paved over or lost haven’t been entirely erased. The remnants might be elusive, or fading, but they have yet to entirely vanish. The spectre of the past is all around us, he’s observed. “And often it is hidden in plain sight. ”Ghost Metropolis, Ethington’s multimedia “book” due in the Fall of 2016 from UC Press is the fruit of meticulous study and labor. The project is a wrap-around look at a region often difficult to categorize as well as summarize. In it he explores how Greater Los Angeles came to be such a fluid (and consequently volatile) site of re-invention, one both haunted and bound by its history.

From Shulman’s Private Book Collection located at his Hollywood Hills Studio.  Shulman’s signature stamped and Studio stamp inside booklet.

*This Softcover Book is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity authorized by the Julius Shulman Trust and Photographic Archives.

Size 6″ x 9″  (15.24 cm. x 22.86 cm.)

This Softcover Book is in excellent condition. Condition Report: Any condition statement is given as an opinion and the condition statement does not imply that this Book is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfection or the effects of aging.

This Softcover Book is part of the Julius Shulman Estate and came directly from Shulman’s Hollywood Hills Home.