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L.A. from Every Angle

Posted April 01, 2010 to photo album "L.A. from Every Angle"

As Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg shows, there are many different L.A.s inside the city limits. Joel Bleifuss takes us on the tour of how artists imagine Los Angeles.

Slide 1: Greenberg and Baumbach at Musso & Frank

Slide 7: L.A. against the Communist Muralists

Slide 20: L.A. of the Mexican-American Writers

Slide 21: L.A. of the Singer/Songwriters

Slide 29: L.A. for the children of the rich and famous

Slide 30: L.A. for the children of the rich and famous, Part 2

Slide 22: L.A. of Lowlifes

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) In 1986, Time called Bukowski the “laureate of American lowlife,” and his star would only continue to rise.

He once said, “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

Bukowski was born in Germany, and at the age of 10 his family moved to L.A. It was his city. He told journalist Jay Dougherty, “You live in a town all your life, and you get to know every bitch on the street corner and half of them you have already messed around with. You’ve got the layout of the whole land. You have a picture of where you are.... Since I was raised in L.A., I’ve always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. I’ve had time to learn this city. I can’t see any other place than L.A.”