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"This out-of-print catalogue volume shows the social landscape of Los Angeles the prominent US-American photographer Anthony HERNANDEZ has depicted for more than forty years.
Content
In the tradition of the gasoline stations and the series 'Every Building on the Sunset Strip' by Ed RUSCHA, Anthonay HERNANDEZ and contemporaries such as Robert ADAMS and Lewis BALTZ invested an apparently detached representation of the urban with an element of the social. Whether his subject is a young domestic worker waiting at a bus stop or a woman applying eye makeup in a reflective shop sign on Rodeo Drive, he subtly captures a myriad of economic and racial layers of the social spaces of Los Angeles.
The volume features an introduction by accomplished Vancouver photographer Jeff WALL and thirty-eighrt reproductions from the artist’s remarkable collection of photographs from the 1970s and 80s. The essays inside are wwritten by Kathleen S. Bartels and Jeff WALL.