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Our lives are short. When compared to the landscape around us, we are the proverbial mayfly. Given the brevity of our mortality, we swell with pride, or shutter from embarrassment about what we have done to our home.
The origins of La Raza magazine sound like the beginning of a joke or a story that could go in any direction. However, it’s the beginning of the story of the life of one of the Chicano movement’s most important news publications.
In the 1960s and 70s, a group of intrepid young activists took over 25,000 images for the community newspaper-turned-magazine La Raza. These photos now exist at UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center. Now we're asking for your help in filling the blanks.
“Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema” is the very first collection of essays published in Thom Andersen's long career of teaching, programming, and filmmaking. Its pieces span more than half a century.
Don Farber, a Los Angeles-based photographer and practicing Buddhist, has devoted four decades now to documenting Buddhist life throughout Asia and in the West as part of his spiritual practice.
Hollywood's struggles with diversity long predate #OscarsSoWhite.
To save what little remains of the Yumano culture, POLEN, the Tijuana-based collaborative art duo created a documentary based on their myths, geographically symbolic locations, dreams and beliefs around death.
Artist Ken Gonzales-Day's exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, “Surface Tension,” engages the mural landscape of Los Angeles and the many issues surrounding graphic arts in the public square.
Duo captures the beauty and dignity of brown and black women through elaborate hairstyles adorned with gold jewelry and beautifully composed photography.
At 75 years old, Graciela Iturbide refuses to slow down. In the coming months two exhibitions in Southern California will feature her iconic work, plus her own biography will take on graphic novel form and published by the Getty.
Photographer Harry Gamboa Jr.'s latest exhibit at the Autry features nearly 100 portraits of Chicanos he believes represent the evolution of the term among Mexican-American men.
In his long-running photo series, “Chicano Male Unbonded," photographer Harry Gamboa Jr. meant to counteract all the negative stereotypes that stem from the word "Chicano." Meet a few of his past subjects.