https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/about-2/https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_5865.jpgIMG_5865A tagged building near 4th Street and Western Avenue in Koreatownhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/map.jpgMap2015-10-28T00:28:27+00:00weekly0.6https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/transnational-and-regional-spaces/https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_78311.jpgIMG_7831A man selling belts crosses the street at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard across from the Vermont Metro Station. A luxury apartment complex surrounds the Metro Station entrancehttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_7404.jpgIMG_7404Bystanders cross the street leading to the Metro Station on Western Avenue and Wilshire Boulevardhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_52061.jpgIMG_5206A man waits at the corner of 8th Street and Oxford Avenuehttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_5206.jpgIMG_5206A man waits at the corner of 8th Street and New Hampshire Boulevardhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dsc_8987.jpgDSC_8987Oh Changhee, an economics student from Jin Ju, South Korea at the 40th annual Korean Festival in Koreatown. He is part of a program that incubates students to become experts on trading. He and his friends traveled to Los Angeles to practice sales in a foreign environment. His entrepreneurship program lasts three months where afterwards, he is expected to travel to other countries to participate in exhibits to share what he learned. He is holding a dry radish soup he and his two colleagues are selling at their table.https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dsc_8968.jpgDSC_8968Han So Young, a student from Jin Ju and participant in the business incubation program through her university at the 40th annual Korean Festival in Koreatownhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_7090.jpgIMG_7090The Korea Daily and Koreatimes are two transnational Korean language newspapers in available Koreatownhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_7198.jpgIMG_7198https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_8225.jpgIMG_8225Samantha traveled over 2,000 miles from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles in May 2014. She sleeps at a shelter in Hollywood and travels by Metro to Koreatown and Downtown each week to make some money and attend a gateway center for social services2015-02-02T23:24:17+00:00weekly0.6https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/multicultural-space-5/2015-02-02T22:54:57+00:00weekly0.6https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/korean-american-ethnic-enclave/2015-02-02T22:27:25+00:00weekly0.6https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/on-photographic-representation/https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/frank-flag.jpgFrank - flagAn image of Robert Frank’s The Americans, circa 1958 https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/frank-tryptic.jpgFrank - trypticAn image of Robert Frank’s The Americans, circa 1958 https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/franks-early-car.jpgFranks - early carAn image of Robert Frank’s The Americans, circa 1958 https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/evans-kitchen-corner-tenant-farmhouse-hale-county-alabama-1936.jpgEvans - Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama, 1936Walker Evans’ static image of a kitchen corner from an Alabama sharecropper’s home. Circa 1936. Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Arthttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/walker-evans-alabama-farm-interior-fields-family-cabin-1936.gifWalker Evans - Alabama Farm Interior (Fields Family Cabin), 1936Walker Evans’s image “Alabama Farm Interior”, circa 1936. A static image showing the basic amenities from inside a sharecropper’s home. Photo Courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Arthttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/walker-evans-a-family-portrait-from-let-us-now-praise-famous-men.jpgWalker Evans - A family portrait from Let Us Now Praise Famous MenWalker Evans’s image of the Frank Tengle Family, an Alabama sharecropper family from the book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”, circa 1936. Photo Courtesy of the New York Timeshttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/riis-five-cents-a-spot.jpgRiis - Five cents a spotJacob Riis’s 1889 image of lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement from his book “How the Other Half Live”. Photo courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cluny-neptune-18th-century-spanish-art.jpgCluny -- Neptune, 18th century Spanish artEugene Atget’s “Cluny, Neptune, 18th century Spanish art”, circa 1911. Atget photographed several artifacts throughout old Paris, creating a catalogue for libraries and people seeking to create replicas of the old sculptures. Photo Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Arthttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/eugene-atget-coin-de-la-rue-valette-et-pantheon.jpgEugene Atget - Coin de la Rue Valette et PantheonEugene Atget’s “Coin de la Rue Valette et Pantheon”, circa 1925. The image show’s an empty street leading to the Pantheon in Paris during its transition to modernity, part of Atget’s catalogue of the city during its transformation. Photo courtesy of the Museum of Modern Arthttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/setting-eyes-on-dolls.jpgLandscapeLewis Hine’s “Setting Eyes on Dolls”, circa 1936. A worker builds rubber doll moulds at a toy factory. The image was part of his project “Men at Work” showing the faces behind the products and infrastructures society regularly took for granted. Photo courtesy of the New York Times 2014-12-09T04:41:47+00:00weekly0.6https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/methods-3/https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_8431.jpgIMG_8431A bank billboard catering to Korean speakers is displayed over a bowling alley and mixed use shopping center catering to Spanish speakers near 4th Street and Vermont Avenue https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_74041.jpgIMG_7404Bystanders cross the street leading to the Metro Station on Western Avenue and Wilshire Boulevardhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_7155.jpgIMG_7155Younny was passing out flyers for her church on the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Western Avenue. She moved to Los Angeles in 1977 and currently lives in Pasadena but travels to Koreatown every week to go to church and see her daughter who lives there. She said its easy to live in Koreatown because it is familiar. She said since she had started visiting Koreatown, the biggest changes she had seen were more buildings and marketshttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_0955.jpgIMG_0955Modern Korean fashions on display at a storefront on Western Avenue and James M. Wood Boulevardhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_5913.jpgIMG_5913A Koreatown street placard welcomes drivers from the Northern entrance to the area on Rosewood Avenue https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/lewis-hine-pittsburgh-pennsylvania-1909.jpgLewis Hine - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1909Lewis Hine’s “In the Mill” from his Pittsburgh project, circa 1909. Photo courtesy of the Records of the Work Projects Administration https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/szarkowski-winesap-from-barn-1997-courtesy-of-the-pace-macgill-gallery.jpgSzarkowski - Winesap from Barn, 1997, courtesy of the Pace MacGill GalleryJohn Szarkowski’s “Winesap from Barn”, circa 1997. Photo courtesy of the Pace/MacGill gallery https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/levitt-new-york-crosstown-1940.jpgLevitt - New York, Crosstown, 1940An image of kids playing in the street in New York from Hellen Levitt’s “Crosstown”, circa 1940. Photo Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Arthttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/walker-evans-chicago-oriental-theater-1947-binghamton-art-history.jpgWalker Evans - Chicago Oriental Theater, 1947, binghamton art historyA scene Walker Evans photographed of the Chicago Oriental Theater, circa 1947. Photo courtesy of Binghamton Art History2014-12-09T04:14:14+00:00weekly0.6https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/history-and-context/https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nate-holden-1992-festival.jpgNate Holden 1992 festivalA letter from former City Council member Nate Holden addressing the Los Angeles riots printed in the 1992 Korean Festival guidebook https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_8651.jpgIMG_8651The historic Korean United Presbyterian Church on Jefferson Street was built in 1905 catering to the first Korean community in Los Angeleshttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_8543.jpgIMG_8543A copy of the Korean declaration of Independence displayed at the Korean National Association Museum https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_8355.jpgIMG_8355Rows of business placards display business signs catering to Korean speakers along Vermont Avenuehttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_8335.jpgIMG_8335Zion Market is a Korean owned grocery store that caters to Spanish speakers on James M. Wood Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_8308.jpgIMG_8308Martha and her granddaughters (from foreground to background), Tatalina, Esther, and Martha. They are from El Salvador https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_8072.jpgIMG_8072Business signs catering to Korean speakers on Berendo Street and Olympic Boulevardhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_7968.jpgIMG_7968The now closed Wien bakery is a Parisian inspired pastry shop, one of several located throughout Koreatownhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_7831.jpgIMG_7831A man selling belts crosses the street at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard across from the Vermont Metro Station. A luxury apartment complex surrounds the Metro Station entrancehttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_7823.jpgIMG_7823The Vermont luxury condominium complex across the street from the Metro Station on Vermont Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard2014-12-09T02:54:44+00:00weekly0.6https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/2014/11/18/methods/2014-11-21T22:35:52+00:00monthlyhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/2014/11/18/photographic-approach/2014-11-21T22:33:10+00:00monthlyhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/2014/11/18/literature-review/2014-11-21T22:27:02+00:00monthlyhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/2014/11/18/57/https://contestedspaceslosangeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/charliekaijo_2.jpgcharliekaijo_22014-11-18T02:08:55+00:00monthlyhttps://contestedspaceslosangeles.comdaily1.02015-10-28T00:28:27+00:00