Reynaldo Rivera: Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City (Semiotext(e)),Used

Reynaldo Rivera: Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City (Semiotext(e)),Used

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Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and longclosed 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 parties, subversive fashion, underground bands, and a handful of Latino gay and transvestite bars: Mugi's, The Silverlake Lounge, and La Plaza. Most of these bars are long closed and many of the performers have died. But in Rivera's photographs, these men and women live on in a silvery landscape of makeshift oldstyle cinematic glamour, a fabulous flight from unacceptable reality.As a teenager, Rivera took refuge in used bookstores and thrift stores, where he discovered old photo books of Mexican film stars and the work of Lisette Model, Brassai, and Bresson. Inspired, he bought a camera and began photographing people at his hotel. In 1981 he moved to Echo Park and began taking photos for the LA Weekly.This book is an ensemble of almost 200 images selected by Hedi El Kholti and Lauren Mackler spanning more than two decades in Los Angeles and Mexico. The book also includes Luis Bauz's story, Tatiana, about one of the subjects of these photographs; a critical essay on Rivera's work by Chris Kraus; and a novellalength conversation between Rivera and his friend and contemporary Vaginal Davis about their lives, work, fantasies, and collective histories.

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