Photo by atomicshakespeares via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr LACMA's photography collection just got a major influx of new images. The collection, ammassed by Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, includes works by Ansel Adams, Julie Morgan Cameron, Imogen Cunningham, Gustav le Gray, Edward Steichen, W. H. Fox Talbot, and Edward Weston. "Annenberg funds paid for a large portion of the photographs; Carol Vernon, the collectors' daughter, and her husband, Robert Turbin, donated the rest," According......

Edward Weston. One of the most brilliant photographers of the 20th Century. Viewing the LACMA exhibit many years ago, I was enamored instantly. The buildings, the nudes, the everyday objects, and his link to Los Angeles stirred up emotions in me that I’ve never forgot. I’ve been trying for months to get to the Getty Center to see this latest exhibit, and finally this weekend I treated myself…and it was delectable! Once again, I......

He has a name, but we shouldn’t really utter it. The Cobrasnake will do. It might be two words. It might be one. We're being told it's Three. The "The" is deserved. To us it’s THECOBRASNAKE with those Spanish upside down exclamation marks in front of it. The Cobrasnake is half myth, half rumor, and half genius. Legend has it that he’s a prodigy and built a camera obscura with his legos while in......

This is a newsstand in Burbank in the early 1940s, and the photo was taken by, of all people, Ansel Adams. Due to the meticulous research of Gerard Van der Leun, with (thankfully) time on his hands, we now know that Ansel Adams was on assignment in LA for Fortune Magazine. Van der Leun has gathered the photos, and all that he knows about them, in this flickr set. If you recognize a streetcorner,......