I Still Believe a Man Can Fly

An LA billboard featuring Christopher Reeve as Superman, circa 1978

I don’t have a whole lot to say about this; I just thought it was an awesome photo, and it’s one I’ve never seen before.
I took it from the Facebook page of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. Here’s the information that was posted along with the picture:

Robert Landau, Native Guy And Photographer, Interview

 

Q-What is your favorite photo you’ve taken and why?

 

A-“Back in the 1980s I had a book published on the Sunset Strip billboards, called Billboard Art [Chronicle Books]. I was living near Tower records and every week there would be new hand painted pop art masterpieces promoting the latest Rock and Roll and movie stars. I took a photo of a street scene with a woman carrying a grocery bag walking under a billboard depicting an image of Christopher Reeve in Superman costume streaking across the landscape. It epitomized for me the surreal nature of Los Angeles with all its dimensions of overblown Hollywood pretense versus the reality of ordinary daily life.”

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