The Sunset Strip, circa 1967. is distinctively passionate and journalistic..
A native Angeleno, his take on L.
A.
His photographs have been shown all over the world.
Robert Landau is a photographer and author of several visual books, including the acclaimed Tales from The Strip .
On the Sunset Strip.
Yes, the true Rock \'n\' Roll billboard era ended, but Robert Landau has created a bound museum of its best artwork, a gallery that shows what was happening there.
A must for every Rock lover, pop-art aficionado, and socio-culture freak, Rock \'n\' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip is a coffee-table book to read and reread, view and review, a book with a beginning and, perhaps tragically, an end.
He tells it like it was, through the people who lived the music, the time, the energy...and the billboards.
Impassioned, he interviewed the artists, record producers, and designers who shaped those placards, bringing fresh insight to the culture of the day and its lasting impact on the world.
Decades later, he rediscovered his Kodachromes, the only extensive collection of photographs that document those iconic billboards.
Landau was right there, a kid destined to be a professional photographer, shooting his first pictures.
In Rock \'n\' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip , author/photographer Robert Landau showcases these signs of the time, a time when Rock was the most important music ever recorded, when youth, politics, and art merged to turn counterculture into mainstream culture.
It seemed that Billboards would chronicle Rock forever.
The Doors led the way.
Hand-painted homages to rock.
Bigger than life.
Billboards.
And, as if to define the era, a few independent minds in the music industry posted giant, temporary monuments that said it all.
Rock \'n\' Roll and the kids who lived it were coming of age--right there on The Strip.
What was happening then is now absolutely clear.
Buffalo Springfield called it right: There\'s something happening here...what it is ain\'t exactly clear.
The Sunset Strip, circa 1967
