The little-known photo feed is akin to a private diary or a sketchbook, the kind of document that once upon a time might not have been discovered for 50 years, hidden away on a shelf somewhere.
Mr. Garcetti’s endeavor is at once political and personal, offering a glimpse into the subdued and slightly offbeat style that has come to define this city’s new leader. It is a style that, with every passing day, offers more of a head-snapping contrast to the splashy and showy ways of his immediate predecessor, Antonio R. Villaraigosa. The days of red carpet appearances, brash promises and bad-boy mayoral antics have given way to a mayor who grows animated talking about the pressing need for navigational systems on fire trucks — and who likes taking pictures with his Samsung Galaxy S4 phone from the behind-the-security-line vantage point that comes with his job.
No grip-and-grins or photos from last night’s Chamber of Commerce dinner here. The mayor shoots photographs from his moving car, while wearing a hard hat during a tour of a construction site, on his morning hike in Griffith Park, during a drive down the coast and from the mayoral car in the funeral procession for a police officer who was killed on duty. After introducing Charlie Wilson, the R & B singer, at a concert at the Nokia Theater, Mr. Garcetti slipped to the wings to watch the show — and to take photographs of Mr. Wilson from behind, washed in red light.
