New photo book looks at L.A. from above

L.A. Day/L.A. Night features 30 aerial images of the city by photographer and pilot Michael Light. The book's introduction by Los Angeles Times critic David L. Ulin observes that "daylight here is never daylight as it might be elsewhere. It is more lucent, higher contrast, offering an additional form of double vision, a lens that changes depending on the hour. During the peak of the day — noon, one o’clock — L.A. is shadowless, pitiless, a city in a never-ending present tense. Yet along the fringes — dawn or dusk — you feel its boundaries start to slip." More photos at Places Journal. Via Good.

Photo: The 5, 10, 60 and 101 freeways, looking west beyond the L.A. River and Downtown.