The Big Picture – Murals of Los Angeles –

– With 150 colour illustrations –

“… In Los Angeles, the mural capital of the world, these images – official and unofficial, astonishing, spectacular, diverse-are everywhere; they rise up from freeway off-ramps, appear in schoolyards, under bridges, unexpectedly on the side of private houses.

Angelenos are at home with this kind of fantasy. They have a long tradition of painting their dreams in images on the movie screen, and the bright California sun casts a light that electrifies the hundreds of murals. …”