Since 2012, Photo Friends has sponsored exhibitions featuring images from the Los Angeles Public Library in a dedicated space in the History & Genealogy Department ar Central Library. Many of the Photo Friends Board members have curated this exhibitions.
John Parkinson: Architect of the Metropolis
L.A.’s Legendary and Landmark Restaurants, 1897-1946
MGM at 100: the Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Grandest Studio
On My Honor… A Century of Girl Scouts in Los Angeles
Discovery, Disaster, and Dreams: Bridging LA’s Water History
Over Our Heads: Los Angeles Goes From Stargazing to Moon Landing
Satan’s Summer in the City of Angels: The Social Impact of the Night Stalker
L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues
The Industry in Our Backyard: Television Production in Los Angeles 1940s-1980s
L.A. Landmarks: Lost and Almost Lost
Signs of Life: Los Angeles is the City of Neon
Service, Society and Social Change: Post – War Clubs from the Valley Times Newspaper
Firsts, Seconds and Thirds: African American Leaders in Los Angeles During the 1960s & 70s from the Rolland Curtis Collection
The First with the Latest! Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City
Bunker Hill in the Rear-View Mirror: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of an Urban Neighborhood
From Pop to the Pit: LAPL Photo Collection Celebrates the Los Angeles Music Scene, 1978-1989
All Rise! Hollywood & The Herald go to Court
King, the Kennedys, & Los Angeles
How We Worked, How We Played: Herman Schultheis and Los Angeles in the 1930s
Edited for Publication: Photographic Manipulations in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner