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A32 FEATURE
Monday 23 april 2018
Library of Congress brings America to life in L.A. photo show

By JOHN ROGERS 19th century, when horse- Some of the selections are “The first selfie we’re calling denburg in New Jersey in
Associated Press drawn wagons hauled ice laugh-out-loud funny as in it,” Librarian of Congress 1937. (Those who want can
LOS ANGELES (AP) — If a to homes, to 2005 when a man holding a sign on a Carla Hayden said with a don headsets and hear
picture tells a thousand thousands lined up outside frigid Wisconsin winter day chuckle. radio broadcaster Her-
words, the Library of Con- a Mojave Desert airplane in 2001 asking, “What? You It is included on the exhi- bert Morrison’s anguished
gress is bringing 440,000 of hangar to see the launch Couldn’t Have Pulled This bition’s “Icons Wall.” Two description of the crash in
them to Los Angeles with a of the X-Box 360 game. Crap In Warm Weather,” others on the wall, placed which he shouts, “Oh, the
free-wheeling photo exhi- “I’ll be disappointed if as he and others protest side-by-side, are the first humanity.”)
bition that seeks to define A rebroadcast of race
America’s zeitgeist in a way horse Seabiscuit’s stunning
people have never seen. upset of War Admiral at
“Not An Ostrich: And Other Baltimore’s Pimlico Race
Images From America’s Li- Course in 1938 can also be
brary,” which opened Sat- heard as visitors gaze at a
urday at the Annenberg photo of the thoroughbred
Space For Photography, crossing the finish line four
takes visitors on a pictur- lengths ahead.
esque journey across the Celebrities are represent-
country beginning with the ed but not in the type of
birth of photography and photos one might expect.
continuing to the present There’s a candid fam-
day. ily shot of Elizabeth Taylor,
But don’t expect just am- for example, showing her
ber waves of grain and stretched across her bed
purple mountain majesties, in 1957 with her infant chil-
although there are a few dren as her husband Mike
of those included in the 440 Todd leans over them. She
photographs. was said to have liked it so
Instead, look for civil rights much that she sent copies
icon Rosa Parks sitting not to friends at Christmas.
in the back of the bus but Not far away is “Migrant
in the front passenger seat This Thursday, April 19, 2018, photo shows exhibition curator Anne Wilkes Tucker, left, and Library Mother,” Dorothea Lange’s
in 1956 after the yearlong of Congress photo curator Beverly Brannan, right, during a tour of the exhibit “Not An Ostrich: And moving portrait of a des-
battle that she, Martin Lu- Other Images From America’s Library,” on display at the Annenberg Space For Photography in titute farmworker pho-
Los Angeles.
ther King Jr. and others Associated Press tographed in 1936 at a
led to end segregation on pea-pickers camp near Ni-
pomo, California.
Gov. Scott Walker’s efforts known photo of Abraham Still others show photogra-
to roll back union bargain- Lincoln, taken years before phers themselves at work,
ing rights. his assassination, and the including a stunning image
Others are menacing, like first of legendary abolition- of Margaret Bourke White
the image of a 1920s-era ist Harriet Tubman, taken in perched precariously on a
Ku Klux Klan rally two miles 1868. gargoyle sculpture outside
from Washington, D.C., Others include the Wright the 61st floor of New York’s
that includes a Klan mem- Brothers’ first flight in 1903 Chrysler building in 1930
ber glaring at the photog- and the deadly crash of as she shoots the skyline
rapher. the German dirigible Hin- below.q
There’s also that reliable
photo standby, the fun-
ny cat picture. This one,
taken in 1936, features an
In this Thursday, April 19, 2018, photo shows exhibition curator annoyed-looking feline
Anne Wilkes Tucker shows a 1920s-era Ku Klux Klan rally two dressed to resemble the fe-
miles from Washington, D.C., which includes a Klan member
glaring at the photographer, part of the exhibit “Not An Ostrich: male warrior Brunhilde.
And Other Images From America’s Library,” on display at the “Around the turn of the cen-
Annenberg Space For Photography in Los Angeles. tury, in the early 19-some-
Associated Press things, people liked to
make pictures of cats and
public transportation suc- somebody can come into dogs, putting them at tea
ceeded. this space and not find at tables with dolls, putting
See baseball immortal least one picture that they clothes on them,” said
Babe Ruth lying in his coffin love,” exhibition curator Brannan, revealing that at
in 1948, while not far away, Anne Wilkes Tucker said least one aspect of pho-
in a photo taken seven during a recent pre-open- tography hasn’t changed
years later, a young Hank ing tour. much in 150 years.
Aaron is seen speaking with Tucker worked for nearly Nor has another: One of This Thursday, April 19, 2018, photo shows Library of Congress
a reporter decades be- two years with Library of the first photos visitors see photo curator Beverly Brannan, left, and exhibition curator Anne
fore he would break Ruth’s Congress photo curator is a daguerreotype Rob- Wilkes Tucker talk about “Migrant Mother,” Dorothea Lange’s
moving portrait of a destitute farmworker photographed in 1936
home-run record. Beverly Brannan and oth- ert Cornelius snapped of at a pea-pickers camp near Nipomo, Calif., part of the exhibit
Other photos show how ers, culling through an es- himself outside his family’s “Not An Ostrich: And Other Images From America’s Library,”
day-to-day American timated 1 million of the li- Philadelphia lamp shop in on display at the Annenberg Space For Photography in Los
life has evolved from the brary’s 14 million photos. 1839. Angeles.
Associated Press