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Be Electrific Day


178th and Manhattan Place, Torrance, from the Los Angeles Documentary Project Honor Thomas Edison today, his birthday, and recognize his electrical inventions!

This photograph, a cityscape from Torrance, California, embodies our idea of "electrific" art. The power lines form diagonals that give the composition a tension and dynamism in contrast with the low horizontal trailer.

Pictured: John Humble, born 1944, 178th and Manhattan Place, Torrance, from the Los Angeles Documentary Project, 1979, cibachrome print on paper, 15 1/2 x 19 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Photography Museum of Los Angeles.