September has always been a hot month in Southern California. But for decades, the extreme heat came layered with another form of misery: smog. Through the 1950s to the 1980s, “smog sieges ...

When Texas native George Tate arrived in Los Angeles for the first time in the early 1950s as a student at the Art Center School of Photography, he ...

He spent almost the entire month of February in Southern California, capturing the coast, mountains and downtown Los Angeles in glorious Kodachrome.