About Stacey

Stacey Rain Strickler earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communications in 1986 and relocated from her native Virginia to work in the motion picture industry. Trained as a cinematographer’s assistant, she worked for over a dozen years in film and television while simultaneously developing photographic studies of Los Angeles. She served as curator and contributing photographer of an exhibit for the grand opening of the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens in 2000, and her images have been published in newspapers, magazines and books.

She specializes in Los Angeles photo history, and served as photo editor on three coffee-table books: “Imagining Los Angeles: Images of a 20th Century City,” “Sunset Boulevard: Cruising the Heart of Los Angeles,” and “Childrens Hospital and the Leaders of Los Angeles.”

A 2003 graduate of the Western Archives Institute, Stacey developed an archives program for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and their affiliate organizations, and participated in the California Online Archives initiative through the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.