What is Jack Laxer?
[[File:JackLaxerWiki.jpg|thumb|Jack Laxer on February 14, 2014]] '''Jack Laxer''' (1927&ndash; June 12, 2018)<ref name=NYT2001>{{cite news|title=The 50s and 60s, Through 3-D Glasses |first=Kimberly |last=Stevens |date=November 29, 2001 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/garden/the-50-s-and-60-s-through-3-d-glasses.html}}</ref> was an American [[photography|photographer]]. He was best known for his work in [[stereoscopy]]. His photographs of California modern architecture have been published in magazines and books, displayed in museums. Beginning in 1951 he documented the designs of [[Louis Armet]] and [[Eldon Davis]] including Norms, Pann’s, and the Holiday Bowl.<ref>{{cite news|title=All Three Sides of the Story |first=Kathy |last=Bryant |date=November 22, 2001 |newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/22/news/cl-7021}}</ref> These images were included in Alan Hess’s book ''Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Googie |first=Alan |last=Hess |publisher=Chronicle Books |year=1986 |isbn=9780877013341 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYiGA6QNE8sC&q=laxer}}</ref> setting off a revival of interest in the style beginning in the 1980s. Laxer died on June 12, 2018 in [[Culver City, California]] from [[pneumonia]] at the age of 91.<ref>[http://www.lamag.com/askchris/jack-laxer-photographer-outlandish-architecture-dies-91/ Jack Laxer, Photographer of Googie Architecture, Dies at 91]</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Laxer, Jack}} [[Category:People from Los Angeles]] [[Category:American photographers]] [[Category:Deaths from pneumonia]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in California]] [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] {{US-bio-stub}}