The Big Flash: Crime Photography L.A. Style

Weekend distractions. No particular relevance to what I’m working on in Gone West, other than general period background on two minor characters. I usually steer clear of James Ellroy’s precincts but the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner crime and courtroom photography archives from the 20s, 30s and 40s got me on a binge. Banal yet lurid, resonating from hardboiled to noir. Question: Who was influencing…