Reynaldo Rivera
Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2021
Summary
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.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 parti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901122 |
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| ISBN-10: | 163590112X |
| Author: | Reynaldo Rivera, Lauren Mackler |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.36kg |
| Dimensions: | 292mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) |
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Critics Review
“Looking at Rivera’s pictures at the moment of pandemic makes the pleasure and community they portray seem that much more remote. And yet the horizon of inspiration remains.” – The Nation
“Looking at Rivera’s pictures at the moment of pandemic makes the pleasure and community they portray seem that much more remote. And yet the horizon of inspiration remains.”
—The Nation
“In his book, Rivera leaves behind an alluring yet candid record of interconnected communities at a moment in time.”—LA Times
“As detailed in [Reynaldo Rivera], Semiotext(e)’s marvelous new monograph, Rivera sidestepped tragedy through talent and will.“—Aperture
About The Author
Reynaldo Rivera
Reynaldo Rivera is an artist from Mexicali, Mexico, who now lives in Los Angeles, where he documents the ongoing relationship between the city and its people.Born and braised in Los Angeles, California, Vaginal Davis has been based in Berlin, Germany since 2005 where she has been a member of the art collective CHEAP since 2001. She is currently a guest professor teaching a performance seminar called Perverse Assemblages at Work Master HEAD Responsible du Department Arts Visuals, Geneva. She curates the performative film program Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome at Arsenal Institute f r film und Video Kunst in Berlin.Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker- A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.
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