Gary Friedman: Los Angeles Times photojournalist

LAPD officer Delwin Fields guards the intersection at Central and 46th Street on April 30, 1992.

A search team scours the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 terror attacks.

A Lakers float leaves the Staples Center during a victory parade on June 21, 2010.

Kobe Bryant in 2013.

Ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1996.

Announcer Vin Scully in his booth before a Dodgers–Reds game on Aug. 22, 2010.

Jamey Wentling and others in Hollywood protest against police violence on Dec. 6, 2014.

Director-photographer Agnes Varda at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Oct. 30, 2013.

President Clinton gives a speech in Beverly Hills on May 1, 2003.

Actor Terry Crews in Beverly Hills on June 9, 2010.

A performing dog dives into a pool during the 2010 Rose Parade.

Jay Leno plays a gramophone at the studios of “The Tonight Show” on Jan. 28, 2014.

Actor-rapper Ice Cube in his Sun Valley studio on April 11, 2014.

Members of the Choinumni tribe walk on a sacred burial ground threatened by proposed mining near Sequoia National Park on Sept. 23, 2010.

People dance at Olympic Boulevard and Olive Street in downtown Los Angeles after a Los Angeles Lakers victory in 2000.

Then-L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at City Hall on June 25, 2013.

President Obama greets L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at Los Angeles International Airport in 2013.

An unarmed ICBM launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base lights the sky over I–15 freeway about 30 miles west of Baker, Calif., in 2002.

Actor Djimon Hounsou, photographed on Oct. 11, 2006, had a breakout performance in “Blood Diamond” with Leonardo DiCaprio.

One of the photos of Yvonne and Yvette Jones that won a World Press Photo award.