Nancy Lehrer Photography

A Sense of Place

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2 Mega-Pixels (or Less) : My Adventures with an LG Shine (CU720) camera phone. Buy the Book at Blurb.com It started with the image of Edmond at the ATT store. I needed a new cell phone, but the fact is cell phones aren't just cell phones anymore. They are organizers, MP3 players, text messaging devices, and cameras. Oh yes, the now ubiquitous camera phone known for convenience over quality. I embraced its short-comings and began a journey, a photographic adventure in 2 mega-pixels or less.

2 Mega-Pixels (or Less)

My Adventures with an LG Shine (CU720) camera phone. Buy the Book a ...

Updated: Jan 17, 2009 10:38am PST

Galleries

Los Angeles - South Broadway Historic Theatre District : Buy the book Los Angeles - Yesterday's Places Today Nearly a century since its beginnings, Los Angeles and its surrounding suburbs are still dotted with historic reminders of the city's early 20th century emergence as a modern metropolis with lavish theatres and grand buildings in a variety of architectural styles ranging from Beaux-Arts to Neo-Gothic to Art-Deco. The images presented here illustrate our modern 21st century life integrated among these vestiges from the past and covers the areas of Los Angeles' South Broadway Theatre District. While compiling this collection, I became fascinated with the political, sociological, and economic factors that spurred the growth of this pueblo outpost located nearly twenty-five-hundred miles from New York City. During the process of research and preparation, I relinquished all notions of turning this volume into a history book. The images collected here present neither a comprehensive account of the Los Angeles area nor are they presented in a documentary style. A documentary photographer would aim for a perspective-perfect architectural rendering with few human distractions. Instead, I have exploited these beautiful historic buildings as the backdrop for a glimpse into our 21st-century life and way of thinking. I have stretched the perspectives and captured the pulse of life on the street as it intermingles among these aging structures. My simple wish is to capture some poignant images of historic Los Angeles in its current 21st-century context. The majority of these images were taken over a short period during the Spring of 2008. Nancy Lehrer 2008

Los Angeles - South Broadway Historic Theatre District

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Updated: May 09, 2008 8:48pm PST

Hollywood Boulevard : Buy the book Los Angeles - Yesterday's Places Today The stars on the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard start at Gower Avenue, a block east of the Pantages Theatre, and continue west past Grauman's Chinese Theatre – now the Mann's Chinese Theatre – to La Brea Avenue.

Hollywood Boulevard

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Updated: May 10, 2008 2:46am PST

Santa Monica : Buy the book Los Angeles - Yesterday's Places Today Nearly a century since its beginnings, Los Angeles and its surrounding suburbs are still dotted with historic reminders of the city's early 20th century emergence as a modern metropolis with lavish theatres and grand buildings in a variety of architectural styles ranging from Beaux-Arts to Neo-Gothic to Art-Deco. The images presented here illustrate our modern 21st century life integrated among these vestiges from the past and covers the areas of Los Angeles' South Broadway Theatre District. While compiling this collection, I became fascinated with the political, sociological, and economic factors that spurred the growth of this pueblo outpost located nearly twenty-five-hundred miles from New York City. During the process of research and preparation, I relinquished all notions of turning this volume into a history book. The images collected here present neither a comprehensive account of the Los Angeles area nor are they presented in a documentary style. A documentary photographer would aim for a perspective-perfect architectural rendering with few human distractions. Instead, I have exploited these beautiful historic buildings as the backdrop for a glimpse into our 21st-century life and way of thinking. I have stretched the perspectives and captured the pulse of life on the street as it intermingles among these aging structures. My simple wish is to capture some poignant images of historic Los Angeles in its current 21st-century context. The majority of these images were taken over a short period during the Spring of 2008. Nancy Lehrer 2008

Santa Monica

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Updated: May 13, 2008 12:53am PST

2 Mega-Pixels (or Less) : My Adventures with an LG Shine (CU720) camera phone. Buy the Book at Blurb.com It started with the image of Edmond at the ATT store. I needed a new cell phone, but the fact is cell phones aren't just cell phones anymore. They are organizers, MP3 players, text messaging devices, and cameras. Oh yes, the now ubiquitous camera phone known for convenience over quality. I embraced its short-comings and began a journey, a photographic adventure in 2 mega-pixels or less.

2 Mega-Pixels (or Less)

My Adventures with an LG Shine (CU720) camera phone. Buy the Book a ...

Updated: Jan 17, 2009 10:38am PST

Your Bio

Computer Scientist by profession, classical musician by history, and photographer by passion.

My earliest memory of picture taking dates back to the 5th grade. Armed with my father's Kodak Brownie camera, I set out to document a week at a beach-side camp. I was soon dubbed camp-photographer and published in the camp newsletter. The same year, I documented the wedding reception for my grandmother's third wedding. I was 9.

My first SLR was a Canon AE-1 purchased in 1978. I used this camera exclusively for 22 years. Though these years I dabbled in photography, my output waxing and waning. Everything changed in 2006 with the purchase of a dSLR. Using digital equipment allows me to easily explore new ideas and puts me in control in the digital darkroom.