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Reynaldo Rivera - Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City (Hardcover)
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Reynaldo Rivera - Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City (Hardcover)
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Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap
rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and
long-closed gay and transvestite bars. Throughout the 1980s and
1990s, Reynaldo Rivera took personal photos of the Los Angeles that
he lived in and knew: a world of cheap rent, house parties,
subversive fashion, underground bands, and a handful of Latino gay
and transvestite bars: Mugi's, The Silverlake Lounge, and La Plaza.
Most of these bars are long closed and many of the performers have
died. But in Rivera's photographs, these men and women live on in a
silvery landscape of makeshift old-style cinematic glamour, a
fabulous flight from unacceptable reality. As a teenager, Rivera
took refuge in used bookstores and thrift stores, where he
discovered old photo books of Mexican film stars and the work of
Lisette Model, Brassai, and Bresson. Inspired, he bought a camera
and began photographing people at his hotel. In 1981 he moved to
Echo Park and began taking photos for the LA Weekly. This book is
an ensemble of almost 200 images selected by Hedi El Kholti and
Lauren Mackler spanning more than two decades in Los Angeles and
Mexico. The book also includes Luis Bauz's story, "Tatiana," about
one of the subjects of these photographs; a critical essay on
Rivera's work by Chris Kraus; and a novella-length conversation
between Rivera and his friend and contemporary Vaginal Davis about
their lives, work, fantasies, and collective histories.
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