ANTHONY HERNANDEZ : EVERYTHING

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Anthony Hernandez (Born 1947)
50 works DVD available Books ìWaiting for Los Angelesî and ìEverythingî available 6 images, 40î x 40î 44 images, 20î x 16î

DESCRIPTION:

The Los Angeles River is shaped by Southern California's arid climate. During the dry months, from June to October, it is little more than a rivulet, meandering torpidly through miles of concrete flood-control. But between November and May fierce rains strike; fed by storm drains that conduct waste water to the sea, the river rises up, swelling against its man-made boundaries.

From January 2003 to May 2004, photographer Anthony Hernandez walked the basin of the Los Angeles River, recording what he saw. For Hernandez, to explore the river was to explore his own past. As a boy growing up in Boyle Heights, a largely Latino neighborhood in East Los Angeles, he played in the concrete basin or, as he puts it, made "mischief", exploding railroad flares in its tunnel-like storm drains, and smashing bottles against its walls. Hernandez does not stage his photographs; he records what he finds ñ objects left behind by the homeless who camp there or the groups of mischievous children he was once part of, or lost down far-away storm drains, and now deposited in the bed of the river, until the next rains wash them away.

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