Part I. The Barrio : A Chicano Anchor -- Barrio Lives : Ricardo Valverde's East Los Angeles Photography -- Photography and Nostalgia in the Touched-Up Images of Kathy Vargas -- Los Angeles and Other Alien Lands : Harry Gamboa Jr.'s Photography of Urban Exile -- Barrios and the Visibility of Enduring Lives : Louis Carlos Bernal -- Part II. Individual Subjectivities -- Woman's Body and Other Objects of Nature : The Nude Photography of Laura Aguilar -- 6 On the Homosociality of Vatos : Jose Galvez -- Part III. Chicano Cultural Perspectives -- Mariachi and the Public Display of the Chicano Soul : Miguel A. Gandert -- Lowriders and the Ostentation of Chicano Masculinity : Art Meza -- Gendering the Fight : Delilah Montoya's Women Boxers -- Strategic Dissemblance in the Photography of Ken Gonzales-Day : Mexican Men and Lynching in California -- Concluding Remarks.
Summary:
"Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of ten distinctive artists who offer a range of approaches to portraying Chicano life. The production of each artist is examined as an ideological interpretation of how Chicano experience is constructed and interpreted through the medium of photography, in sites ranging from the traditional barrio to large metropolitan societies. These photographers present artistic as well as documentary images of the socially invisible. They and their subjects grapple with definitions of identity, as well as ethnicity and gender. As such, this study deepens our understanding of the many interpretations of the Chicano experience"--Provided by publisher.
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