After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame: Essays and Photographs

by Lynell George

Los Angeles lives largest in the world's imagination. It can be a projection, a solution, a temporary fix, a long-term goal. For Lynell George -- and millions of others -- it's simply home.

After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame by Lynell George is the result of this award-winning journalist's years of contemplating and writing about the arts, culture, and social issues of Los Angeles, always with an emphasis on place and the identity of the people who live in -- or leave -- L.A. As a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly, Lynell George explored place after place that makes the city tick, met person after person, and encountered the cumulative heart of the city.

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Published January 1, 2018

About the author

Lynell George is a Los Angeles-based writer. A former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly, she focused on social issues, human behavior, as well as visual arts, music, and literature. She is the author of three books of nonfiction: The Hugo Award-finalist, "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler," "After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, and "No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels," a collection of features and essays drawn from her reportage. In 2017 received the Huntington Library’s Alan Jutzi Fellowship for her studies of California writer Octavia E. Butler and won a GRAMMY for "Otis Redding Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings" in the Best Album Notes category. In 2020 she was awarded a Distinguished Journalist award by Society of Professional Journalists/L.A.