Gary Leonard has been photographing Los Angeles for 40 years. He first made a name by chronicling the city's punk clubs and nightlife. He's centered mostly in Downtown now, and has a gallery called Take My Picture on the same block of Broadway as the Orpheum Theater and Broadway Bar.
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Vin Scully and Mayor Eric Garcetti helped the Dodgers unveil the logo for next year's All-Star game to be held in Los Angeles.
Author Toni Morrison at an Aloud LA event at the Aratani Theatre in 2008. Gary brought it out of the archives after Morrison died last week.
Jackie Goldberg, the former Los Angeles City Council member and state legislator, returns to the LA school board.
Artists Ed Ruscha and Kent Twitchell in front of the latter's mural of the former on the legendary American Hotel building in the Arts District downtown.
One of the last 150-year-old Moreton Bay fig trees in the Old Plaza downtown fell after the rains this winter.
Big turnout for the groundbreaking at the new high-rise project across Grand Avenue from the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Former school board member Jackie Goldberg wants to return to elected office. Gary attended her fundraiser in Beachwood Canyon.
Mayor Eric Garcetti's press conference announcing his decision not to upgrade three natural gas-burning power plants the city operates along the coast.
The Secretary of State for President Bill Clinton was in Culver City. Click on the image to see it larger.
Gary caught up with the curator at the West Los Angeles College Gallery. Click on the image to see larger.
Gary covered a UTLA rally downtown during the run-up to the teachers strike. Click on the image to enlarge.
At the swearing-in ceremony for newly elected Sheriff Alex Villanueva, held at East Los Angeles College.
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The former Los Angeles County labor leader celebrated her election to the state Senate.
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The media mogul and former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg at the observatory in Griffith Park.
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Gary caught up with Kwame Anthony Appiah, the philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist, outside the Central Library.
The Lula Washington Dance Theatre performed as part of the LA Philharmonic's 100th birthday celebration.
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Patt Morrison at the La Brea Avenue stand's 78th anniversary celebration.
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City Hall protest of people and groups opposed to Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Laurie Ochoa, wife of the late Jonathan Gold, with the plaque honoring him at Grand Central Market. Click on the image to see full-sized.
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Ernie Marquez finally got to see the monument dedicated at his rancho family's cemetery in Santa Monica Canyon. Gary was there.
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The official swearing-in of LAPD Chief Michel Moore by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Click on Gary's
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Gary catches the mayor and new LAPD chief-designate Michel Moore at Echo Park Lake. Click to see bigger.
Bus bench at Wilshire and Grand Avenue.
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Big high rise coming to Broadway downtown.
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Christopher Hawthorne, the former Times architecture columnist, attends his first state of the city speech as a member of the Garcetti Administration.
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The Dodgers and the stadium will host baseball's 2020 All-Star Game. Click on the image to see it full-sized.
Kaleb Havins ends his Skid Row hunger strike. Click on the image to make it full size.
Al Nodal, Lewis MacAdams and Eugene Daub at the river in Atwater. Click on the image to see it full size.
An extensive facelift is underway. Viewed from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion side. Click on the image to see a full-sized version.
The Los Angeles school board commemorated the landmark East LA school walkouts of 1968.
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Leonard Bernstein in the now-empty Caravan Book Store. A follow-up to last month's picture.
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Gary catches up with the Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Click on the image to see it full size.
The crew digging the Regional Connector line beneath Flower and 4th streets. Click to see full-sized.
Gary catches up with Friends of the Los Angeles River founder Lewis MacAdams at a new monument to him by the river. Click on the image to see full sized.
Sen. Kamala Harris at the Kingdom Day parade in South Los Angeles. Click on the image to see full sized.
Gary catches Biff Naylor on the last day of his Du-par's restaurant on Ventura Boulevard near Laurel Canyon in Studio City. Click on the image to see full sized.
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Political activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on August 19 at age 84. Click on the image to see larger.
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News item: Stendahl Galleries to close in 2017
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Steve Seemayer with the original artwork used by his mother, Lynne Seemayer, to paint the Pink Lady over the Malibu Canyon tunnel in 1966. Backstory at LA Observed.
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The founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River was honored at City Hall.
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Tyson Wong's 104th birthday
Tyson Wong's 103rd birthday
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Kite Man of Sunland
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Gary observes paving of the new northbound carpool lane on the San Diego Freeway. Who knew they do it by hand?
From Kevin Roderick: Gary received a call from the coroner Tuesday morning informing him of his friend's death. William Mitchell was an artist and illustrator and a familiar figure in Downtown Los Angeles and the Arts District. Friends are commenting at Mitchell's Facebook page.
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Gary Leonard covers artist Tyrus Wong's birthday every year. Here is 102 and 101, and some of the Wong story.
[Wong] is described by the Amoeba Music blog as "a Chinese-American artist who's most best-known work was as the background artist largely responsible for the look of Walt Disney's 1942 film Bambi.' He's also worked as a landscape painter, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer, designer and kite maker. Some of his well known paintings include Self Portrait, Fire, Reclining Nude, East and West. ...One of the earliest successful Chinese-American artists, he is a living legend."[skip]
Wong graduated from the Otis art school in 1930...
Also: The Kite Man of Sunland
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City Attorney Carmen Trutanich joined the January 1 polar bear swim in the ocean at San Pedro. Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears on Thursdays at LA Observed. Gary's archive.
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Rep. Janice Hahn and City Councilman Tom LaBonge show no fear (of the cameras) and head for the Pacific at Cabrillo Beach on New Year's Day. Click to embiggen. More Take My Picture Gary Leonard.