Authors on Architecture: Mandelkern on Electric Moons
SAH/SCC Zoom Program
Sunday, April 06, 2025
Join SAH/SCC for a
fascinating look at something we see every day and probably give little thought
to: the street lights of Los Angeles. In her book, Electric Moons: A Social
History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles (Hat and Beard Press, 2024), India
Mandelkern examines the art and politics of street lighting in LA from the
1880s to the present.
Flitting between social history,
cultural anthropology, urban studies, and the history of design, Electric Moons illustrates how street
lighting helped frame larger debates about civics and surveillance,
infrastructure and traffic, the definition of public space and who should have
access to it. Through her own conversations with politicians, planners,
preservationists, artists, and dreamers, Mandelkern argues for the
streetlight’s vitality to urban life: a totem for the modern era.
Mandelkern is a Los Angeles native
and a graduate of Middlebury College (Vermont). She received a Ph.D. in History
from the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, she has worked as a
curator, consultant, and critic, and has written on various topics—from food
and wine to art and design—for many publications. A certified sommelier, she is
currently writing a book about wine.
Mandelkern
on Electric Moons—Sunday, April 6, 2025; 1-2:30 PM Pacific; $5. Go to www.sahscc.org and pay via PayPal; or
mail in order form on Page 6 with check; Zoom link sent upon registration. NOTE:
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