Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 22, 2005
Eleven years ago on January 18, the headlines of the Los Angeles Occasions Newspaper read ÂÂ錳 Die, several Hurt in 6.6 Quake, L.A. Freeways Buckle, Buildings Topple.”
With the freeway down in the northern valley due to the January 17th earthquake, emergency action was taken by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority to construct the Metrolink rail line from Lancaster to Union Station. Prior to this, political agendas and concerns blocked rail progress in Southern California. The 6.6 earthquake, with traffic snarls, blocked roads, forced every person to come together to aid LA get back to work. Photographer Jean Ferro was hired to document this historical transition, the 1st substantial movement for the railroad in Southern California in 50 years. On January 19, at the Burbank Airport, President Clinton held a news conference where Sen. Dianne Feinstein mentioned, “We’ve got to take benefit of Metrolink and the rail network in southern California.”
“It was an intense project at the time, a lot of individuals in Los Angeles were scared to leave their home, drive beneath a bridge, it shook the Los Angeles community to its core,” mentioned Ferro. “It was a unique opportunity to document the historical transition in California Rail history, the images deserve to be housed in an educational facility or library where the archive can be preserved, accessed for study and used for historical reference.” Ferro is looking for a collector to purchase the archive.
The 1994 Earthquake Emergency archive contains 51 rolls of RGB color negative film, roughly 1700 pictures. There are: two sets of black and white proof sheets and one particular set of transparencies from the exact same negatives. Every film roll and transparency image is identified with project name, date, spot and hour time frame.
The initial twenty-nine film rolls represent a four day, 24 hour day documentation of the initial key transition of the railroad in Southern California given that the introduction of the automobile that took precedent 50 years earlier. The fifty-1 rolls of photo documentation start off with Roll # 1, January 21, at 5pm, in Lancaster, CA. Rolls #1 thru #29 include land site excavation, workers constructing and expanding rail tracks and creating stations. The photographs also consist of, going to Wash D.C. Transportation Secretary Federico PeÃଚ, as well as the Navy CB’s excavating the land at Action/Vincent Station. Roll #29, January 24, contains the inaugural ride from Lancaster Station to L.A. Union Station.
The photo archive also contains pictures of finishing specifics such as newly developed paved parking, facilities, and so on. photo Rolls #30 thru #41, January 27 – January 31, 1994 show the continued rail expansion of train stations Action/Vincent/Canyon Country.
At the starting of the project, Ferro created a slide show of images for emergency meetings and also sent to Wash D.C. The images activated FEMA response to the emergency wants of Southern California. On February 16, 1994, Rolls #42 thru 43, are images from Union Station/Los Angeles showing the $ three,000,000 FEMA verify acceptance by/ Senator Dianne Feinstein, Councilman, Richard Alatorre with /Rail Authority Executives. Rolls #44 thru #46, March 23 documents the opening Metrolink rail stations Camarillo/Oxnard/Princess. Knowing that the new expansion of the Metrolink would encourage growth in the community, Ferro also documented the land internet sites and community surrounding Lancaster/Palmdale/Action Vincent /Canyon Country stations.
Rolls #47 thru #51, March 28 – Orange County Inaugural ride to Los Angeles Union Station, even Mickey Mouse took the inaugural ride on March, 28th.
Considering that the implementation of the 1994 rail progress, the population in the northern valley has maintained steady growth. The success of Metrolink and the connecting underground rail systems, has enhanced the Los Angeles transportation program.
“Every single transparency” and “All proofs” are identified with Title/Dates/Spot/Time. The portfolio contains approx. 1700 pictures. This is based on an average count of 36 images per roll instances 51 rolls of film. Copyright: Earthquake Emergency Jean Ferro 1994.
FerroÂÂ’s photographic career started in 1974 in the Music Business, portfolios include legendary pictures of personalities in each film and music which includes Ringo Starr, David Bowie, Arianna Huffington, Larry Gelbart m and Reba McEntire to name a handful of. Other Los Angeles based projects by Ferro consist of an substantial archive of the 1990 Ladies In Film Festival held at the Directors Guild with images of Danny Thomas, Michael Langdon, Whoopie Goldberg, Jimmy Smits and others. In 1992 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs awarded Ferro a grant to generate a 30 minute photo documentary film “Through Our Own Eyes, Self-portraits by Individuals With no Properties” about people living on the streets of Los Angeles.
July 1996, International Liberty, a mixed media exhibition of 42 international newspapers with an abstract image of the Statue of Liberty produced its debut at Los Angeles City Hall, Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery. Spring of 2000, DreamWorks SKG hired Ferro to document the land site of the controversial try to create the DreamWorks Studio at Play Vista where the Howard HughÂÂ’s Aircraft hanger is portion of the historical land internet site. For the past 4 years in addition to her private photography, Jean has spearheaded the movement of Girls In Photography International, http://www.womeninphotography.org into the #1 on the web resource center for females photographers worldwide.
Contact:
Kate Dawson
Los Angeles
(323) 462-1444
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