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Paul R. Williams in Los Angeles: A Conversation with Janna Ireland
WHEN, IN 2016, photographer Janna Ireland first started a project of shooting buildings around Los Angeles designed by Paul R. Williams, she had almost no idea of what his work was like. I have to confess that, for a long time, I shared her ignorance. Like many Angelenos more than a little familiar with local history, I’ve always been more aware of Williams’s stature as an iconic local architect than of his actual work. I thought of him as a figure more historical than aesthetic, one of many trailblazing black professionals who defined ascending black L.A. and the Central Avenue scene at its zenith in the 1940s. I assumed that his designs followed the popular ones of the era — streamline moderne, Art Deco. That would have been impressive enough.

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