When Frank Gehry makes a new building—that's history! And when Gary Leonard gets out his cameras, Los Angeles history is in the making! So is it any wonder that Gary Leonard is the only photographer to have documented Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles from the first shovel of dirt that was lifted on groundbreaking day right through to completion? And now, his pictures become the definitive Walt Disney Concert Hall book: “Symphony in Steel.”

“Symphony in Steel” is Gary Leonard’s photo study of the building that has added a 21st Century style to the skyline of L.A. His film captures the people of Los Angeles as they stare into its stainless steel skin. He shoots the building from the inside out, from its steel girders to its upholstered seats. He’s got Los Angeles Philharmonic Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and architect Frank Gehry as they contemplate the future and acoustic engineer Yasuhisa Toyota as he creates the perfect labyrinth of sound. Gary Leonard was the only photographer whose lens was on site every step of the way.

Now for all the Angelenos who will want it, for all the tourists who must take it home, all the LA historians and architectural devotees who’ll demand it: here’s the only book featuring Gary Leonard’s signature black-and-white images. Featuring the words of the people who will live with this “Symphony in Steel”—the people of Los Angeles. With photos by the people’s photographer, the inimitable Gary Leonard.

• “Symphony in Steel: Walt Disney Concert Hall Goes Up”
• 150 Photographs by Gary Leonard, noted LA photojournalist
• Impulse priced at $16.95—the AFFORDABLE Disney Hall book!
• 128 pages; high-quality coated stock
• the perfect gift; the perfect document
• Order directly from ANGEL CITY PRESS

October 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 1-883318-33-5
128 pp / full-color covers and b/w throughout
8.5"x6.5"

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