Images of Our Times - Sixty Years of Photography from the Los Angeles Times

241 photographs, including 12 in color. News photographs bring reality to life in a very special way. And for more than a hundred years the Los Angeles Times has published photographs of the people and events that shape our daily world. During the past six decades the paper has maintained its own staff of skilled men and women capable of shooting a crime scene, a Hollywood wedding, or a pier fire with equal dexterity. More than 225 of these extraordinary images of "our Times," including a Pulitzer Prize winner and a dozen color action photographs from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, have been brought together in this book, a first collection of great photojournalism from the newspaper's pages. Seen together they make up a mini history of Southern California, from the Roarding Twenties to the Far-Out Eighties. (...) A preface by Wilson Thomas, the editor of the Times; an introduction by photo editor Jim Wilson, the man in charge of assigning stories to the photographers; and an anecdotal essay by Iris Schneider, herself a staff photographer, cap off a collection of visual delight, of nostalgia, history, and drama.