Waiting, Sitting, Fishing, and Some Automobiles: Los Angeles

Arts & Photography

Anthony Hernandez

Photography & Video

Loosestrife Editions

Two for You, One for Me

A mother and son wander aimlessly in the late 1920s through Arizona and Mexico border-town poverty; homeless, with no life direction. In the early 1930s the son, through life¿s happenstance, discovers a better way that people can live and exist in a loving family. Ultimately, in 1937, the state of Arizona reunites him with extended family living in Tucson. This time period and these locations provide the beginning settings for a memoir that takes the reader through this child¿s transition from young boyhood surviving on the streets, into early manhood; to a pre-WW ll Army enlistee; a soldier stationed in Seattle, Washington, helping his antiaircraft contingent defend Boeing¿s B-17 bomber production; and then a husband and father before going overseas for the invasion of Japan. After war¿s end he becomes a new civilian living and working for Seattle City Light, and with his wife, happily raising a family and making a life in the Puget Sound area. When a family friend continues to encourage him to make a change to the white collar profession of selling real estate, he succumbs and somewhat unknowingly chooses the opportunity. Unfortunately, opportunities can be a wolf in sheep¿s clothing, as his life changing choices take him and his family down unfamiliar roads and social influences that alter the future course of all of the family¿s lives.

Parenting & Relationships

Robert Anthony Hernandez

Rodeo Drive, 1984 is a series of 41 images of shoppers on Beverly Hills' infamous shopping highway. The subjects appear caught unaware, glancing up as they walk, or daydreaming as they wait to be served in its commercial landscape of shops and restaurants. Anthony Hernandez poses as a dispassionate observer, recording the big hair, wide shoulders and cinched waists of the 1980's in sunlit photographs.

Rodeo Drive, 1984

MACK BOOKS

Brand new and shrink-wrapped. Publisher's stock. Forever comprises photographs taken in the downtown area of Los Angeles and the poorer neighbourhoods of Compton, Watts and South Central, made between 2007–2012. The work traces the movements of the homeless, in images which take up the point of view of the homeless person. So, rather than photographing the material trace – a chair or bed – Hernandez photographs what might be might seen and observed from the street itself. The title was drawn from a previous work Landscapes for the Homeless (1996), exhibited at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. The catalogue included a conversation between Hernandez and Lewis Baltz titled Forever Homeless: A Dialogue. It was Baltz who chose the title, and Hernandez speaks of its prevailing significance, “The title is very important because, as I write this, fifteen years on, the homeless population of Los Angeles has only increased; I could technically keep photographing this subject, making these

Forever

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