A Brief History Of L.A. s Billboard Art

As a teenager in the 1970s, though, Landau favored something else.�Oil Portrait

The Sunset Strip was his playground, and in his eyes, art was all around.�Oil Portraits

"When I went out to explore the world," he says on the phone, "I felt the Strip was like a gallery; there were these hand-painted works of art on the street."�

What he's Biển hộp đèn hút nổi referring to, though, are billboards: Not necessarily what most would consider "art" � at least not by contemporary standards.

"They looked like giant art pieces that kind of represented my generation and the music I listened to," he says.

Landau was 16 when he started pointing a Kodachrome-loaded camera at larger-than-life icons hanging over L.A.'s streets � the Beatles crossing Abbey Road, Linda Ronstadt in roller skates. At the time, he explains, music Biển hộp đèn hút nổi billboards were relatively new to L.A.

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