Iris Schneider considers herself an accomplished observer of life in Los Angeles. As a staff photographer at the L.A. Times for 27 years and a freelance photographer in New York, she honed her skills watching the world go by and commenting on the complexity, irony and humor of life with her camera. She is now freelancing as a photographer and writer again. Website. Email
In the projection room tonight at the Million Dollar Theater, for Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory," with projectionist Tom Ruff.
When avant-garde choreographer Pina Bausch died suddenly in 2009, filmmaker Wim Wenders not only mourned his close friend. The movie they were to begin in two days almost died as well. "Pina" opens Friday in Los Angeles
Occupy protesters demonstrate at the end of the Rose Parade through Pasadena.
The City of Los Angeles float turns onto Fair Oaks Avenue moving into position for Monday's Rose Parade in Pasadena.
My photographs from the clean-up scene at Occupy L.A. this morning.
Riddle from the art world: Who was part huckster, part experimental trailblazer and part social commentator, lampooning society's adoration of celebrity, but longing to be one at the same time? Go to MOCA and see.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich speaking on Saturday at Occupy Los Angeles, outside City Hall.
Crew films an episode of "The Closer" on Fuller Avenue near Beverly Boulevard. Photograph by Iris Schneider.
At 2nd Street and Beaudry, just west of the Harbor Freeway from Downtown. Second in the Night Vision series.
Iris Schneider has followed Bruce Lisker for LA Observed since his release from prison two years ago. This weekend, she covered the wedding.
New series of photos on L.A. at night, starting on Union Avenue near 12th Street in Pico-Union.
In my opinion, she deserves not only a museum, but her own special Oscar for trying so hard to preserve Hollywood's history.
I was at the Convention Center this past Thursday when my Guatemalan friend became a citizen after 22 years in the U.S.
I saw it out of the corner of my eye while driving home on Sunset. While I knew what it meant, I chose to ignore it.
Bruce Lisker was mostly excited to return to the courthouse where he was wrongly convicted of killing his mother and sent to prison. But there were surreal moments.
Like their older sisters, the Junior Derby Dolls [ages 8-17] "are a do-it-yourself, volunteer-driven roller derby league trained and run by members of the L.A. Derby Dolls."
After 26 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Bruce Lisker added a new first on Tuesday. He voted. Plus he's engaged.
"Los Angeles Plays Itself," a three hour film that is a virtual tutorial on how Los Angeles is portrayed in the movies, screened this weekend at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica. Director Thom Anderson was there.
After taking the call that the state wants to send him back to prison, Bruce Lisker says "I just need to stay focused on the tasks ahead: school, love, life and staying in a spiritually and emotionally healthy place."
I dozed off during the movie and woke up wondering: who has dreams like that?
Julian Schnabel and MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch seem to have re-opened the old debate: what is art, exactly?
Fifth part of a series following Bruce Lisker as he readjusts to life in L.A. after 25 years in prison.
This week, several of the brightest lights of the photography world turned out to honor the still image.
For those of you who got shut out of tickets for Ira Glass at UCLA this weekend, take heart. Storytellers abound in Los Angeles.
On a rainy morning in San Pedro, Bruce Lisker was in a reflective mood. He had come to Point Fermin, the spot where his parents' ashes had been scattered, and was talking about the adjustment to his new life. Now that he has been free almost 6 months, and can't get a job, he admits "I'm feeling the loss."
Nearly four months after his release from prison, Bruce Lisker leaves North Hollywood and moves in with his girlfriend in Marina del Rey.
I caught a little sneak preview of tonight's Beyond Drag film festival, being held at Downtown Independent Theatre.
After a tough year financially, the Museum of Contemporary Art put on a gala party to celebrate with 1,000 of its closest friends.
A carwash worker asked Lisker if he had won the lottery. He smiled. "Yeah, something like that."
After 26 years in jail, shopping at Target in the Valley means freedom.
In designing a new apartment building for the Skid Row Housing Trust, architect Michael Maltzan decided not to let "freeway adjacent" become a bad thing.
When you see white people toting their lawn chairs to MacArthur Park at dusk and settling in with Hollywood Bowl-worthy picnics, you know things have changed.
USC's marching band, a card trick and cupcakes helped Los Angeles' beloved landmark celebrate a birthday.
| How is it that until about a week ago I'd never heard of the surrealist photographer Francesca Woodman? We even went to the same school.
| Seventeen years after the Rams and Raiders left town, neither team is better off. Now both are threatening to move back.
Parents have won partial restoration of federal poverty funds for 23 schools in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. Many of the schools are in middle class neighborhoods but have substantial numbers of poor students.
