LA, a city most photographic, least photogenetic.
vehicle above people. movie above city.
location shoot, public spectacle, place, landmark, geographic fiction: rediscover
city as background, city as character. modern architecture as movie star.
high-tourist, low-tourist, high-brow, low-brow, middle-brow;
fear, baby boom, depopulation;
adapt changing pattern of consumption/urban renewal;
opaque reality coexist without touching, dissolving into distance.
virtuosity, narcissistic; picturesque, cliched; surrealism, innocent.